Proposal - Appends

[mgralikowski]

It would be nice to add ability to make appends on results.
For example if user model has getFullNameAttribute() we could use something like:

/users?_appends=fullName

I make workaround in my Repository Base Class (parserResult is method from Repository library and its called with ->all()):

    /**
     * @param array $fullTextSearchColumns Columns to search in fulltext search
     * @param array|boolean $queryParams A list of query parameter
     * @return $this
     */
    public function scopeQueryParametersMultiple($fullTextSearchColumns = array(), $queryParams = false)
    {
        if ($queryParams === false) {
            $queryParams = request()->except('_appends');
        }

        return $this->scopeQuery(function($query) use ($fullTextSearchColumns, $queryParams) {
            return ApiHandler::parseMultiple($query, $fullTextSearchColumns, $queryParams)->getBuilder();
        });
    }

    public function scopeQueryParametersSingle()
    {
        return $this->scopeQuery(function($query) {
            return ApiHandler::parseSingle($query, [])->getBuilder();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Wrapper result data
     *
     * @param mixed $result
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function parserResult($result)
    {
        $result  = parent::parserResult($result);

        $appends = request()->filled('_appends') ? explode(',', request('_appends')) : null;

        if ($appends) {
            if ($result instanceof Collection) {
                $result->each(function($row) use ($appends) {
                    $row->setAppends($appends);
                });
            } elseif ($result instanceof Model) {
                $result->setAppends($appends);
            }
        }

        return $result;
    }

But would be nice to transfer this logic to Your library.

[marcelgwerder]

The upcoming v1.0 and Laravel resources should leave you with way more control over this than the current release. I hope to get this done soon.