Laravel API Resource - Reusable with Conditions For Fields

A follow-up to a previous video on creating different API Resources for different endpoints: what if we decide to re-use the same resource class, after all?

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[marcgarcia]

Nice! What I usually do, is in the controller add some param in the request, so then in the resource I know what to do, and create the return array from there. I think that it should be interesting if Laravel allows to send more data in the resource, it's very limited

[noplay]

I like the videos about API resources. Now that laravel goes more into SPA (at least that's how I see it) Livewire, replacement of webpack with vite, APIs becoming more interesting and important. But that's just my prediction where Laravel wants to go.

[techjeed]

Thank you so much for the tips, this really help me in my current project, before I used to created multiple api resources, but now I can replace with only one which save a lot of time and work.
Thank you I really appreciate. watching your videos everyday from Nigeria 👍

[kirayamato]

You can do also ternary operator in the key of array or if else conditions to add a new element in array

[bballantyne]

Thank you for this. First time I'm seeing the $this->when in the resource

[benedettosciuto]

To separate a list of objects from single object i use ResourceCollection instead of JsonResource.

[ZhanOmar]

Sir, is there any similar options with FormRequests validations? For example we have an Alarm API, where all users table has timezone column with some timezone value (UTC+3). In the resource of alarm(s) we transform all data to the user’s timezone. But when the user sends post request to API to create an alarm at 2022-07-20 09:00:00, in FormRequest we have to:
1) validate time value is filled (required)
2) validate time value has correct date time format
3) if everything is ok - transform all data to UTC and go ahead to the Alarms controller.

[rmzomgo]

I tried this way to conditional rendering for relationships, and whenLoaded method doesnt work as expected and I had to use different resources

[ricards]

I think in this case we could have used match experssion.

[topviralclips_x]

what is the purpose of putting the routeIs condition in the isWhen as the logic is dont in the callback? could you just put nothing in here?

[rickythegermanshepherd]

Thanks for the video. I learnt a lot from your videos. Can you please tell me where to store large static data in laravel so that we can use in multiple places. I am storing them directly in blade template as array inside @php . But Its very repitative. (Please make a video on this topic if possible)

[IlPandax]

Thanks for your video. I have a question: when you used "$this->when" I expected the value of description to be empty, instead even the key disappear in Postman. Can you explain me why? What am I missing? Thanks.

[alishan]

Is it okay to send message and status from API controller?

[denniswanjiru]

I know this is not related to today's video but allow me to drop it here. I'm building an e-commerce system and would like to integrate a product recommendation engine. Apart from creating the model in python and interacting with it using APIs, is there a "Laravel-ish" way of doing this?

[cubestorm]

In description you don't paste link to your newsletter.

[sidecharacter]

can you make all of your course available on udemy?

[ricko]

thats a good approach but you're kinda turning it into a graphql api LOL