Send multiple variable to laravel Api resources - laravel

Question

I want to different type of collection..One containing users acros the city and another one containing near by users. I want these from single api hit. is it possible ? If yes then please suggest how to do that.
Waht I did
return ServiceProviderCollection::collection($near_by);
Output:
"data": [
{
"username": "??",
"email": "??",
"rating": 0,
"role_id": 2,
"wallet": "0"
}
],
I want
return ServiceProviderCollection::collection($near_by,$across_city);
expected output:
{
"across_city": {
"data": [
{
"username": "??",
"email": "??",
}
],
},
"near_by": {
"data": [
{
"username": "??",
"email": "??",
}
],
}
}

Answer 1

No, you can't pass 2 objects in Resource. You can do it like this
return [
'across_city' => ServiceProviderCollection::collection($across_city),
'near_by' => ServiceProviderCollection::collection($near_by)
];
Edit: After comment
If you want to show pagination information then you have to create separate controller action and then return ServiceProviderCollection::collection then you will get result with pagination meta information.
create these action in your controller ex. (UserController)
public function acrossCity(){
$acrossCity = User::where('city','test')->paginate(10); //example
return ServiceProviderCollection::collection($acrossCity);
}
public function nearBy(){
$nearBy = User::where('near','1')->paginate(10); //example
return ServiceProviderCollection::collection($nearBy);
}
create routes for these
Route::get('user/acrossCity','UserController#acrossCity');
Route::get('user/nearBy','UserController#nearBy');
Check document https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/eloquent-resources#pagination
Note: when using resource class then name it without Collection. For your case you should name resource as ServiceProviderResource and then when you call its collection then ServiceProviderResource::collection($object) but when returning single object then new ServiceProviderResource($object).

Answer 2

I am currently using Laravel 7 and in my controller I am passing an array of collection objects to resource class
$data = ['quotation' => Quotation::first()];
return new QuotationResource($data);
and in my resource class I can access the data using
public function toArray($request)
{
return [
'quotation' => $this->resource['quotation']
];
}