Laravel Resource Endpoints Laravel Package

title: Meta helper weight: 3

A little helper

When using collection links in your resource the code for adding these collection links can be quite confusing:

class UserResource extends JsonResource
{
    use Spatie\ResourceLinks\HasLinks;
    
    public static function collection($resource)
    {
        return parent::collection($resource)->additional([
            'meta' => [
                'links' => self::collectionLinks(UsersController::class)
             ],
         ]);
    }
}

That's why we've added a little helper which puts links immediately in the meta section of a resource collection:

class UserResource extends JsonResource
{
    use Spatie\ResourceLinks\HasLinks;
    use Spatie\ResourceLinks\HasMeta;
    
    public static function meta()
    {
        return [
            'links' => self::collectionLinks(UsersController::class)
        ];
    }
}

You can use this little helper by including the Spatie\ResourceLinks\HasMeta trait in your resource.