I have two Models that I would like to merge into one timeline. I have been able to do this by creating a View in mysql that normalizes and unions the tables. I created a Model for this view, NewsFeed
. This works well if I do not want related Comment
model. I have gotten close to this by overriding the getMorphClass
method on the model. This allows me to get the related comments for the pictures, but not the posts, because when getMorphClass
is called the model doesn't have any data.
I am open to any approach on how to solve this, not just the way I am proposing, but I don't want to pull more data than I have to from the database.
NewsFeed
<?php
namespace App\Users;
use App\Pictures\Picture;
use App\Social\Comments\CommentableTrait;
use App\Posts\Post;
use App\Users\User;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class UserFeed extends Model
{
use CommentableTrait;
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo(User::class);
}
public function getMorphClass(){
if ($this->type == 'post'){
return Post::class;
}
return Picture::class;
}
}
MySQL View
CREATE VIEW
`user_feeds`
AS SELECT
`posts`.`id` AS `id`,
`posts`.`user_id` AS `user_id`,
'post' AS `type`,
NULL AS `name`,
NULL AS `thumbnail`,
`posts`.`body` AS `body`,
`posts`.`updated_at` AS `updated_at`,
`posts`.`created_at` AS `created_at`
FROM
`posts`
UNION SELECT
`pictures`.`id` AS `id`,
`pictures`.`user_id` AS `user_id`,
'picture' AS `type`,
`pictures`.`name` AS `name`,
`pictures`.`thumbnail` AS `thumbnail`,
`pictures`.`description` AS `body`,
`pictures`.`updated_at` AS `updated_at`,
`pictures`.`created_at` AS `created_at`
FROM
`pictures`;
pictures table
id
user_id
title
img
img_width
img_height
img_other
description
created_at
updated_at
posts
id
user_id
title
body
created_at
updated_at