How to cast time in Laravel?

Question

I'm trying to get a TimeString from 08:00:00 to 08:00.

I would like to cast time like this:

protected $casts = [
    'opens' => 'time:H:i',
    'closes' => 'time:H:i',
];

without using mutators like getOpensAttribute().

In my migration I'm using:

$table->time('opens')->nullable();
$table->time('closes')->nullable(); 

Is it possible?

Answer 1

According to the docs, the only supported cast types are:

integer, real, float, double, string, boolean, object, array, collection, date, datetime, and timestamp.

Therefore you have to convert your time to string either before you store it or after you retrieve it from the database.