Select specific fields in Eloquent eager loading not working

Question

I have a Notifications model that belongs to a User. I want to load the user when a collection of notifications is selected and only load the model with names and emails. However, when using the select method, the query returns null.

$notifications->load(['user' => function($query){
    $query->select(["name","email"]);
}]);

If the parameter for select() method is given as below, it gives all the fields:

$notifications->load(['user' => function($query){
    $query->select(["*"]    
}]);

Answer 1

Maybe selecting the fields like this works out:

$notifications->load('user:id,name,email');

What you are trying is designed to add constraints, not to select some fields