implementing Laravel 10 and JSON API Spec Compliance for Resource Relationships
After trying multiple solutions online, I still can't figure this out. I've been working on this all day and I've been banging my head against this for hours. I've been banging my head against this for hours... I'm currently working on a Laravel 10 application that exposes a JSON API, and I'm struggling to correctly format the relationships in accordance with the JSON API specification. I have two models: `Post` and `Comment`, where a post has many comments. When I try to include the comments with the post resource, I'm not getting the expected structure in the response. Instead of a nested array of comments under the `comments` key, I'm getting a flat array that doesn't conform to the expected JSON API format. I've set up the relationships in my models like this: ```php // Post.php class Post extends Model { public function comments() { return $this->hasMany(Comment::class); } } // Comment.php class Comment extends Model { public function post() { return $this->belongsTo(Post::class); } } ``` In my controller, I'm attempting to return the post along with its comments like so: ```php public function show($id) { $post = Post::with('comments')->findOrFail($id); return response()->json($post); } ``` However, the returned JSON looks like this: ```json { "id": 1, "title": "Sample Post", "comments": [ { "id": 1, "body": "Nice post!" }, { "id": 2, "body": "Thanks for sharing!" } ] } ``` What I really need is for the `comments` relationship to be formatted with the appropriate structure specified by the JSON API, which should ideally look like this: ```json { "id": 1, "title": "Sample Post", "relationships": { "comments": { "data": [ { "type": "comments", "id": "1" }, { "type": "comments", "id": "2" } ] } } } ``` I've tried using `Fractal` for transforming the responses, but I'm still not able to get it right. I keep running into issues with the relationships not being formatted correctly. Is there a way to properly structure the API response to conform to the JSON API spec, or is there a better approach I should consider for handling relationships in Laravel 10? Any guidance or examples would be greatly appreciated! What's the best practice here? For context: I'm using Php on macOS. Is there a better approach? I'm open to any suggestions. Am I missing something obvious?