How to handle Spatie Media Library items?

[goellner]

Is anyone including media library items in their DTO and has an example for me how you set this up? When returning the content as JSON we need to include the media items in the response.

[Nir-An]

Hi @goellner

I don't familiar with the package and I need more information
but if I understand you get a collection so maybe these things can be useful:

the type of getMedia

return type : MediaCollections\Models\Collections\MediaCollection

1. try to change the collection to array and just add the array to the object

...
public function __construct(
     ...
    public array $media
}
public function fromModel(ModelWithMedia $model)
{
   return new self(){
    ...
   media: $model->getMedia->toArray()
    ...
}

2. and then try to add it as a collection.

...
 public function __construct(
...
     public MediaCollection $media

...
}
public function fromModel(ModelWithMedia $model)
{
return new self{
...
media: $model->getMedia
...
}
}