Append media url trait

[royduin]

For a simple API I'm returning a collection without transforming it with Laravel's build in API Resources or Fractal but I just want to include the media urls without too much code. So I came up with this. Just add the trait to the models where the media urls should be appended automatically.

<?php

namespace App\Traits;

trait AppendFirstMediaUrls
{
    public function attributesToArray()
    {
        $attributes = parent::attributesToArray();
        $this->registerMediaCollections();

        foreach ($this->mediaCollections as $mediaCollection) {
            $attributes['media_'.$mediaCollection->name] = $this->getFirstMediaUrl($mediaCollection->name);
        }

        return $attributes;
    }
}

Is this something to have in this package by default? In my current project I only have singleFile() media collections but we could check for that and return an array with urls if we've multiple.

Related: #1135, #1262 and #1082

[freekmurze]

I'm thinking that it is a bit too opinionated to be in the package. I'd like to keep the package light. I see it as the user responsibility to code up how a media item should be converted to json.

[royduin]

Thanks for the answer! 👍