Laravel - how to makeVisible an attribute in a Laravel relation? - laravel

Question

I use in my model code to get a relation
class User extends Authenticatable
{
// ...
public function extensions()
{
return $this->belongsToMany(Extension::class, 'v_extension_users', 'user_uuid', 'extension_uuid');
}
// ...
}
The Extension has field password hidden.
class Extension extends Model
{
// ...
protected $hidden = [
'password',
];
// ...
}
Under some circumstances I want to makeVisible the password field.
How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

->makeVisible([...]) should work:
$model = \Model::first();
$model->makeVisible(['password']);
$models = \Model::get();
$models = $models->each(function ($i, $k) {
$i->makeVisible(['password']);
});
// belongs to many / has many
$related = $parent->relation->each(function ($i, $k) {
$i->makeVisible(['password']);
});
// belongs to many / has many - with loading
$related = $parent->relation()->get()->each(function ($i, $k) {
$i->makeVisible(['password']);
});

Answer 2

Well, I got the idea from https://stackoverflow.com/a/38297876/518704
Since my relation model Extension::class is called by name in my code return $this->belongsToMany(Extension::class,... I cannot even pass parameter to it's constructor.
So to pass something to the constructor I may use static class variables.
So in my Extension model I add static variables and run makeVisible method.
Later I destruct the variables to be sure next calls and instances use default model settings.
I moved this to a trait, but here I show at my model example.
class Extension extends Model
{
public static $staticMakeVisible;
public function __construct($attributes = array())
{
parent::__construct($attributes);
if (isset(self::$staticMakeVisible)){
$this->makeVisible(self::$staticMakeVisible);
}
}
.....
public function __destruct()
{
self::$staticMakeVisible = null;
}
}
And in my relation I use something like this
class User extends Authenticatable
{
...
public function extensions()
{
$class = Extension::class;
$class::$staticMakeVisible = ['password'];
return $this->belongsToMany(Extension::class, 'v_extension_users', 'user_uuid', 'extension_uuid');
}
...
}

Answer 3

The highest voted answer didn't seem to work for me (the relations attribute seems to be a protected array now so can't be used as a collection in #DevK's answer), I instead used:
$parent->setRelation('child', $parent->child->first()->setVisible(['id']));