Laravel 10 - Issues with retrieving nested relationships using Eloquent with eager loading
I've encountered a strange issue with I'm integrating two systems and I'm working on a project and hit a roadblock. I'm currently working on a Laravel 10 application where I need to retrieve a user along with their posts and each post's comments. I've set up the relationships correctly, but I'm encountering issues with eager loading when trying to access nested relationships. I have the following models: ```php // User.php class User extends Model { public function posts() { return $this->hasMany(Post::class); } } // Post.php class Post extends Model { public function comments() { return $this->hasMany(Comment::class); } } // Comment.php class Comment extends Model {} ``` In my controller, I'm executing this query to get the user with posts and their comments: ```php $user = User::with('posts.comments')->find($userId); ``` However, when I dump the `$user` object, I can see the posts are being loaded, but the comments are shown as an empty collection: ```php User {#123 id: 1, name: 'John Doe', posts: [ Post {#456, id: 1, user_id: 1, title: 'First Post', comments: [] // Empty array } ] } ``` I've double-checked and verified that there are indeed comments associated with the posts in the database. The SQL query Laravel generates looks correct: ```sql select * from posts where user_id = 1; select * from comments where post_id in (1); ``` I'm not sure why the comments are not being retrieved. I've also tried using the `load` method after retrieving the user, but it doesn't change anything. Here’s what I attempted: ```php $user = User::find($userId); $user->load('posts.comments'); ``` I still end up with empty comments collections. Could this be due to a misconfiguration in my model relationships, or is there something else I might be missing? Any help would be appreciated! This is part of a larger API I'm building. How would you solve this? I'm working on a mobile app that needs to handle this. What are your experiences with this? I'm working in a CentOS environment. Any help would be greatly appreciated! This is happening in both development and production on Windows 11. Thanks in advance!