Eloquent Binary Cast

The Eloquent Binary Cast.

When using the PostgreSQL dialectic, Eloquent treat the "bytea" column in the same manner as blob/text column. But this is incorrect on PostgreSQL. The value needs to be cast before pushed to the database.

If you are not using Postgresql, you don't need this cast class.

See those issues:

laravel/framework#10847
https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/eloquent/eloquent-does-not-deal-with-binary-information-correctly-in-postgresql
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11329323/laravel-using-a-postgre-bytea-blob-field

Prerequisites:

PostgreSQL 9.0 or later.
Eloquent 8 or later.

Install:

composer require jbernavaprah/eloquent-binary-cast

Use:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use JBernavaPrah\EloquentBinaryCast\BinaryCast;

class User extends Model
{
    /**
     * The attributes that should be cast.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $casts = [
        'binary_data' => BinaryCast::class,
    ];
}

See https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/eloquent-mutators#custom-casts for more details.

Tests:

composer test

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