One to Many not working on Laravel Eloquent - laravel

Question

I have three models that are related. First I have User that belongs to a Role. On the other hand, Role has many roles. Role belongs to many permissions and Permissions belongs to many Role. I am using the AuthServiceProvider as suggested by jeffrey way of laracast. But the problem now, when I want to fetch all the permissions of a User I am having error which is, "Call to a member function getKey() on boolean". Can someone please help me on this. Please refer to the codes below.
User.php
public function role()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Role');
}
public function assignRole($role)
{
return $this->roles()->save(
Role::whereName($role)->firstOrFail()
);
}
public function hasRole($role)
{
if(is_string($role)){
return $this->role->contains('name', $role);
}
return !! $role->intersect($this->role)->count();
}
Role.php
class Role extends Model
{
public function users()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\User');
}
public function permissions()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('App\Permission');
}
public function givePermissions(Permission $permission)
{
return $this->permissions()->save($permission);
}
}
Permission.php
class Permission extends Model
{
public function roles()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('App\Role');
}
}
AuthServiceProvider
public function boot(GateContract $gate)
{
$this->registerPolicies($gate);
//get all permissions
foreach ($this->getPermissionTo() as $permission ) {
$gate->define($permission->name, function($user) use ($permission){
return $user->hasRole($permission->roles);
});
}
}
public function getPermissionTo()
{
return Permission::with('roles')->get();
}
and lastly, heres the user table that has a foreign key of role_id
Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->integer('role_id')->unsigned();
$table->string('id_no')->unique()->index();
$table->string('u_first_name');
$table->string('u_middle_name');
$table->string('u_last_name');
$table->string('email')->unique();
$table->string('password');
$table->rememberToken();
$table->timestamps();
});
roles table
Schema::create('roles', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('name');
$table->string('label')->nullable();
$table->timestamps();
});
permissions table
Schema::create('permissions', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('name');
$table->string('label')->nullable();
$table->timestamps();
});
permission_role table
Schema::create('permission_role', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->integer('permission_id')->unsigned();
$table->integer('role_id')->unsigned();
$table->foreign('permission_id')
->references('id')
->on('permissions')
->onDelete('cascade');
$table->foreign('role_id')
->references('id')
->on('roles')
->onDelete('cascade');
$table->primary(['permission_id', 'role_id']);
});

Answer 1

In the line: return !! $role->intersect($this->role)->count();, the part that says $this->role is probably not returning a collection, which is why you're getting this error. In Collection.php there's a method that iterates through all the items in a collection you send through the intersection method that gets the primary key of it. Because you're not sending a collection to the intersect() method, it tries to use the method getKey() in a boolean. Try:
return !! $role->intersect($this->role->get())->count();