Refactor package relations

Question

I decided to revise and extend relationships in v6. Initially was planned to do it in v5 but it will require database changes and Laravel 5.6 morphTo implementation.

There is a need to fetch:

1. Likeables of the Liker.
2. Likers of the Likeable.
3. (?) Likes which were added to Likeables.
4. (?) Likes which were added by Liker.

I'm not 100% sure about points 3 & 4. Do we really need to get those likes? Need to write use cases for them.

Old implementation

Only 3rd point is implemented right now.

php
// Likes and dislikes related to Likeable
$likesAndDislikes = $article->likesAndDislikes();

// Likes related to Likeable
$likes = $article->likes();

// Dislikes related to Likeable
$dislikes = $article->dislikes();

该提问来源于开源项目：cybercog/laravel-love

Answer 1

1. Likeables of the Liker

Option №1

Liker model will have relationships likedAndDisliked, liked, disliked which returns Likeable models they liked or disliked.

php
// Likeables liked or disliked by user
$likeables = $user->likedAndDisliked();

// Likeables liked by user
$likedLikables = $user->liked();

// Likeables disliked by user
$dislikedLikeables = $user->disliked();

Drawback: There is no clear understanding that it's HasMany relationship. Name should be plural.