Eloquentify Laravel Package

Added

• Laravel 13 support (laravel/framework ^13.0), verified against Laravel 13.x with the full test suite passing

Changed

• Dev tooling now spans the Laravel 13 stack: Testbench ^11.0, Pest ^4.0, pest-plugin-laravel ^4.0
• CI matrix runs Laravel 11, 12, and 13 (Laravel 13 on PHP 8.3+, its minimum)

Complete redesign: JSON-aggregation hydration replaces the v1 column-prefix scheme.

Changed

• Relations arrive as JSON-aggregated columns (json_agg/json_build_object and equivalents) named after the model's relation methods, instead of prefixed flat columns
• eloquentify($result) no longer takes a relations hierarchy: relations are detected from the model's relation methods (which must declare relation return types)
• No row multiplication for sibling "many" relations, no column prefix conventions, no prefix collisions
• Use any method name for the relation: alias the column after the method, including two relations to the same model and self-references
• Requires PHP 8.2+ and Laravel 11+

Added

• BelongsToMany pivot hydration via a pivot key (custom pivot classes and ->as() accessors supported)
• Null/empty relation handling (NULL, [], [null])
• Fail-fast errors for ambiguous columns, invalid JSON, shape mismatches, and scalar elements in to-many arrays
• Lowercased aliases (unquoted in Postgres) are canonicalized to the relation method's name
• Protected relation methods are supported
• Relation lookups are cached per model class and column

Removed

• ModelMeta, the relations-hierarchy argument, and the column prefix scheme

See the README for the new usage.

Documentation

• Corrected relation naming examples — method names derive from the class basename, so author() returning User was never supported
• Fixed syntax errors in the Quick Start samples
• Documented that hierarchies must be composed inside a model class (nest() is protected)
• Documented silent failure modes and limitations: missing primary keys, plural-over-singular precedence, uncountable basenames, one relation per class per parent, self-references, morphTo, pivot data, prefix collisions at every level and across branches, row-value conflicts
• Announced the v2 direction (JSON aggregation)

Fixed

• Prefix stripping corrupted attribute names containing the prefix again later in the name (e.g. post_repost_id hydrated as reid)

Documentation

• Root columns must not start with a nested model's prefix — alias them (e.g. AS posts_total)
• Documented row multiplication when joining sibling "many" relations
• Clarified tested PHP/Laravel versions

Full Changelog: https://github.com/kobykorman/eloquentify/commits/v1.0.0