API display user details - laravel

Question

My current API is:
[{"id":43,"title_id":1,"user_id":1,"comment":"asdasddsa","season":null,"episode":null,"created_at":null,"updated_at":"2019-04-30 09:14:15"}]
I want to replace user_id to the user details from the user table according to id. I would like to see it this:
[{"id":43,"title_id":1,"users":{id:"1",username:"test",email:"example#example.com"},"comment":"asdasddsa","season":null,"episode":null,"created_at":null,"updated_at":"2019-04-30 09:14:15"}]
Controller
public function index($id)
{
$test = Title::where('title_id', $id)->get();
return $test;
}
Title model
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\User', 'user_id');
}
protected $table = 'title';
if I use foreach() in my controller like this:
$test = Title::where('title_id', $id)->get();
foreach($test as $details)
{
return $details->user->username;
}
It gets the user details, but it isn't in the API. How can I get it in API?

Answer 1

For API , it is better to Eloquent resource
Example in your Title resource it will be like
<?php
namespace App\Http\Resources;
use Illuminate\Http\Resources\Json\JsonResource;
class Title extends JsonResource
{
/**
* Transform the resource into an array.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #return array
*/
public function toArray($request)
{
return [
'title_id' => $this->title_id,
'title_name' => $this->title_name,
'user_name' => $this->user->name,
];
}
public function with($request)
{
return [
'status' => '200',
'response' => 'Title resource',
];
}
}
In your controller
public function show(Title $title)
{
return new TitleResource($title);
}
In 5.4 it will be like
public function show(Title $title)
{
$title->user_name = $title->user->name;
return $title->toJson();
}
and it should work fine
example in tinker
>>> $user = App\User::find(1);
=> App\User {#3161
id: 1,
name: "superadmin",
email: "superadmin#example.com",
created_at: "2018-12-13 12:09:07",
updated_at: "2018-12-22 06:47:13",
}
>>> $user->pk = 's';
=> "s"
>>> $user
=> App\User {#3161
id: 1,
name: "superadmin",
email: "superadmin#example.com",
created_at: "2018-12-13 12:09:07",
updated_at: "2018-12-22 06:47:13",
pk: "s",
}

Answer 2

You can do this:
$test= Title::where('title_id', $id)->get();
And if I understand, there is one user for one title, correct? Then you can do this to retrieve the user of a title:
$test->user = User::find($test->user_id);
And finally return the title in a json response:
return response()->json($test, 200);
Your back will send what you want, something like this:
[{"id":43,"title_id":1,"users":{id:"1",username:"test",email:"example#example.com"},"comment":"asdasddsa","season":null,"episode":null,"created_at":null,"updated_at":"2019-04-30 09:14:15"}]