Laravel eloquent with Trashed on relationship

Question

I need to be able to get a Models Relationship including its soft deleted elements, but only for this 1 instance. I do not want to change the model so that every time I use the relationship it returns all the soft deleted records too.

How can I achieve this?

User Model

class User extends Authenticatable {   public function contacts(){     return $this->hasMany('App\Contacts','user_id','id');   } } 

Controller

$user = User::findOrFail($id); //Need to be able to get the trashed contacts too, but only for this instance and in this function $user->contacts->withTrashed(); //Something like this return $user; 

How can I get the trashed rows only this 1 time inside my controller?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use withTrashed method in different ways.

To associate the call with your relationship you can do as follows:

public function roles() {     return $this->hasMany(Role::class)->withTrashed(); } 

To use the same in the fly:

$user->roles()->withTrashed()->get(); 

For your special scenario:

$user->contacts()->withTrashed()->get();