PHP Question
Laravel/Ardent - on save(), error: Relationship method must return an object of type Illuminate
I'm having some trouble getting my Laravel relationships to work out. In my application, there is a one-to-many relationship between users and ideas. (A user may have multiple ideas.) I'm using Ardent.
Here's my User model:
use Illuminate\Auth\UserTrait;
use Illuminate\Auth\UserInterface;
use Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\RemindableTrait;
use Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\RemindableInterface;
use LaravelBook\Ardent\Ardent;
class User extends Ardent implements UserInterface, RemindableInterface {
use UserTrait, RemindableTrait;
/**
* The database table used by the model.
*
* @var string
*/
protected $table = 'users';
/**
* The attributes excluded from the model's JSON form.
*
* @var array
*/
protected $hidden = array('password', 'remember_token');
protected $fillable = array('first_name', 'last_name', 'email', 'password');
public $validation_errors;
public $autoPurgeRedundantAttributes = true;
public $autoHashPasswordAttributes = true;
public $autoHydrateEntityFromInput = true;
public static $passwordAttributes = array('password');
public static $rules = array(
'first_name' => 'required|between:1,16',
'last_name' => 'required|between:1,16',
'email' => 'required|email|unique:users',
'password' => 'required|between:6,100'
);
public function ideas()
{
return $this->hasMany('Idea');
}
}
And here's my Idea model:
use LaravelBook\Ardent\Ardent;
class Idea extends Ardent {
/**
* The database table used by the model.
*
* @var string
*/
protected $table = 'ideas';
protected $fillable = array('title');
public $validation_errors;
public $autoPurgeRedundantAttributes = true;
public $autoHydrateEntityFromInput = true;
public static $rules = array(
'title' => 'required'
);
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo('User');
}
}
Finally, here's my controller code:
class IdeasController extends BaseController {
public function postInsert()
{
$idea = new Idea;
$idea->user()->associate(Auth::user());
if($idea->save())
{
return Response::json(array(
'success' => true,
'idea_id' => $idea->id,
'title' => $idea->title),
200
);
}
else
{
return Response::json(array(
'success' => false,
'errors' => json_encode($idea->errors)),
400
);
}
}
}
$idea->save() throws the error:
{
"error": {
"type": "LogicException",
"message": "Relationship method must return an object of type Illuminate\\Database\\Eloquent\\Relations\\Relation",
"file": "\/var\/www\/3os\/vendor\/laravel\/framework\/src\/Illuminate\/Database\/Eloquent\/Model.php",
"line": 2498
}
}
At first, I was trying to set the user_id in the Idea like so:
$idea->user_id = Auth::id();
I then changed it to:
$idea->user()->associate(Auth::user());
But the results were the same.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Answer Source
You cannot use associate in that direction, since it can only be used on a belongsTo relationship. In your case, an idea belongs to a user and not the other way around.
I suspect there is an error when saving, as you create an idea without the required title, and you then try to get the errors by calling $idea->errors, while it should be $idea->errors().