How to remove fields from Laravel JSON Api response - laravel

Question

I have an API returning an object with one-to-one relation to another object. As the models behind the objects, do have timestamps, these are also delivered when asking API.
// Get all transactions
Route::get('transaction', function() {
return Transaction::with('Personone','Persontwo')->get();
});
How do I prevent Laravel from returning the timestamps of the objects in the API?
I googled, but only found some hints to middleware or response macros but found no example pointing me into the right direction. Maybe you can help me.

Answer 1

You can make attributes "hidden" so that they do not show up in json.
docs
class Transaction extends Model
{
/**
* The attributes that should be hidden for arrays.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $hidden = ['timestamp'];
}

Answer 2

I'm not sure if I get the question correctly but if you want to select from eager loads there are two ways
first one is inline selecting
Route::get('transaction', function () {
return Transaction::with('Personone:id,foo,bar', 'Persontwo:id,foo,bar,foobar')->get();
});
second one is to pass a closure
Route::get('transaction', function () {
return Transaction::with([
'Personone' => function ($query) {
$query->select('id', 'foo', 'bar');
},
'Persontwo' => function ($query) {
$query->select('id', 'foo', 'bar', 'foobar');
}])->get();
});
Eager Loading Specific Columns You may not always need every column
from the relationships you are retrieving. For this reason, Eloquent
allows you to specify which columns of the relationship you would like
to retrieve:
$users = App\Book::with('author:id,name')->get();
Constraining Eager Loads Sometimes you may wish to eager load a
relationship, but also specify additional query constraints for the
eager loading query. Here's an example:
$users = App\User::with(['posts' => function ($query) {
$query->where('title', 'like', '%first%'); }])->get(); In this example, Eloquent will only eager load posts where the post's title
column contains the word first. Of course, you may call other query
builder methods to further customize the eager loading operation:
$users = App\User::with(['posts' => function ($query) {
$query->orderBy('created_at', 'desc'); }])->get();