Laravel eloquent attach auto generate random ID - laravel

Question

I have an eloquent many to many relationship and I want to use attach() to easily create role_permissions data but the problem is I'm using an UUID for my ID and it throws an error Field 'id' doesn't have a default value. Any way of hijacking the attach() method? so I can set my UUID?
My migration
Schema::create('role_permissions', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('count')->unique();
$table->string('id')->unique();
$table->string('role_id');
$table->string('permission_id');
$table->timestamps();
});
My model
class Role extends Model
{
//
public $incrementing = false;
public function users()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('App\User', 'user_roles', 'role_id', 'user_id');
}
public function permissions()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('App\Permission', 'role_permissions', 'role_id', 'permission_id');
}
}
My attach code
$role->permissions()->attach($permission_ids);
I know the problem here is that my id is not an incrementing number it's an unique string. My question is how do I "Inject" that unique string to the attach() method? Thank you guys.

Answer 1

The error
Field 'id' doesn't have a default value
refers to the fact that your database does not know how to fill the id field when it's not specified.
Either you edit the schema adding a nullable:
Schema::create('role_permissions', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('count')->unique();
$table->string('id')->unique()->nullable(); // Bad idea
$table->string('role_id');
$table->string('permission_id');
$table->timestamps();
});
or injecting it via attach:
$role->permissions()->attach($permission_ids, ["id" => null]);
More info on Laravel official doc
Update
For the future developers who encounter this problem you can also set anything inside the attach array, for example:
$role->permissions()->attach($permission_ids, ["id" => Uuid::generate()]);
Update 2
There's also a more clean way to handle this to be honest. I will try to explain it.
You can handle the Pivot events inside the event service provider by simply hooking into the bootmethod:
Here's a snippet
/App/Providers/EventServiceProvider.php
public function boot()
{
Pivot::creating(function($pivot) {
if ($pivot->getTable() == 'role_permissions') {
$pivot->id = Uuid::generate();
}
});
}
Be aware I do not know if this is actually possible on your laravel version. Mine (5.4.*) works as intended

Answer 2

Okay managed to fixed it, what I did with the help of #Claudio Ludovico Panneta's tip.
foreach($permission_ids as $permission_id)
{
$role->permissions()->attach($permission_id, ["id" => Uuid::generate()]);
}