Laravel json response returns encrypted data - laravel

Question

I'm using an Encryptable trait to encrypt my data for the a Room model.
RoomController (/rooms) returns the decrypted data but ApiRoomController (/api/rooms) does not.
How could I make it returns the decrypted data?
Encryptable Trait
trait Encryptable
{
public function getAttribute($key)
{
$value = parent::getAttribute($key);
if (in_array($key, $this->encryptable) && $value !== '' && $value !== null ) {
$value = Crypt::decrypt($value);
}
return $value;
}
public function setAttribute($key, $value)
{
if (in_array($key, $this->encryptable)) {
$value = Crypt::encrypt($value);
}
return parent::setAttribute($key, $value);
}
}
RoomController index function
public function index()
{
$rooms = Room::select('id', 'name')->get()->sortBy('name')->values()->all();
return view('rooms.index')->withRooms($rooms);
}
ApiRoomController index function
public function index()
{
$rooms = Room::select('id', 'name')->get()->sortBy('name')->values()->all();
return response()->json($rooms);
}

Answer 1

I found a way using API Resources:
php artisan make:resource Rooms --collection
Then in your app/Http/Resources/Rooms.php file:
public function toArray($request)
{
return [
'id' => $this->id,
'name' => $this->name,
// more fields here
];
}
Then in your ApiRoomController.php file:
use App\Http\Resources\Rooms;
public function index()
{
$rooms = Room::select('id', 'name')->get()->sortBy('name')->values()->all();
return Rooms::collection($rooms);
}

Answer 2

Seems like #emotality came up with a good solution for this already...
However, the reason for this not working as you expected is because the underlying Model's toArray() / toJson() methods do not call the getAttribute() method in your trait.
This is important because the response()->json() method maps the given collection and calls the toJson() method on each model in order to prepare it for a response.
Therefore, you can also solve this by overwriting the toArray method in your model.
class Room extends Model
{
use Encryptable;
public function toArray()
{
return [
'id' => $this->id,
'name' => $this->name,
// ...
];
}
}