Laravel change pagination data

Question

My Laravel pagination output is like laravel pagination used to be, but I need to change the data array for each object. My output is:

As you can see, the data object has 2 items, which I need to change.

My code is:

$items = $this->items()         ->where('position', '=', null)         ->paginate(15); 

Which returns the user items with pivot table, but I don't like the way the pivot table is shown in the JSON, so I decided to change the items and organize each item with the pivot before the item.

For this purpose, I tried to use foreach

foreach ($items->data as $item)         {          } 

which giving my an error, for a reason I don't know:

Undefined property: Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator::$data" status_code: 500 

Any help?

Answer 1

The paginator's items is a collection. You can grab it and transform the data like so:

$paginator = $this->items()->where('position', '=', null)->paginate(15); $paginator->getCollection()->transform(function ($value) {     // Your code here     return $value; }); 

If you are familiar with tap helper here is the snippet that does exact same.

$paginator = tap($this->items()->where('position', '=', null)->paginate(15),function($paginatedInstance){     return $paginatedInstance->getCollection()->transform(function ($value) {         return $value;     }); }); 

We can't chain method getCollection to paginator instance because AbstractPaginator will return paginator's underlying collection. so the paginator instance will be transformed to Collection. So fix that we can use tap helper.