In case of building an api with Laravel do we need to return a json like this on each request :
$datas = User::find($id)->get();
return response()->json($datas);
Or just return the collection like this is enough ?
return $datas;
What is the cleanest way ? Thanks !
The best way is to create resource:
php artisan make:resource UserResource
Within resource you define fields to return, so everything is over control. You can also pass additional meta data for pagination etc.
$datas = User::find($id)->get();
return UserResource::collection($datas);
Returned users is wrapped with data key:
{
"data": [ users array here ]
}
Cleanest way of doing it to return the data with response:
return response()->json($data,200);
If you have multiple variables then you can do it as following:
$users = User::find($id)->get();
$admins = Admin::find($id)->get();
$data=['users'=> $users, 'admins'=>$admins];
return response()->json($data,200);
