Laravel 5.5 has a new API Resources feature, and it nicely redirects calls to model attributes (like
$this->id
ide-helper:models
You can use the @mixin
Here is an example, If you want the properties/phpdocs from the User model in your User Resource, then do like this
namespace App\Http\Resources;
use Illuminate\Http\Resources\Json\Resource;
/**
* Class User
*
* @mixin \User
* */
class User extends Resource
{
public function toArray($request)
{
return [
'id' => $this->id,
'name' => $this->name,
'email' => $this->email,
'created_at' => $this->created_at,
'updated_at' => $this->updated_at,
];
}
}