how to make a relationship of users with reporter table - php

Question

I have a table named reports in which i have two columns. One is reported_post_id and the other is reporter_id. In reporter_id the value can be more than 1 and it's json. I want to make a relationship between the unique reported_post_id with the many reporter_id which is already saved in column as json data.
public function reported() {
return $this->hasMany('App\Models\Repoters', 'reported_post_id');
}
public function reporters() {
return $this->belongsTo('App\Model\Repoters', 'reporter_id');
}
$column = [\DB::raw("*"), \DB::raw("id as postable_id"),\DB::raw("report_type as postable_type")];
$data = Repoters::select($column)->with("repos")->orderBy('id', 'DESC')->paginate(50)->unique("reported_id");
I want that to show all data of reported_post_id with reporter_id.

Answer 1

You could make use of the eloquent-json-relations package.
Install it:
composer require staudenmeir/eloquent-json-relations:"^1.1"
Then in your User model (or the relevant one):
class Repoters extends Model
{
use \Staudenmeir\EloquentJsonRelations\HasJsonRelationships;
public function reported() // or the name that you want
{
return $this->hasManyJson('App\Model\Repoters', 'reporter_id');
} // ^^^^^^^^^^^the json column.
public function reporter() // or the name that you want
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Model\Repoters', 'reported_post_id');
}
}
From the package documentation:
Many-To-Many Relationships
This package also introduces two new relationship types:
BelongsToJson and HasManyJson
On Laravel 5.6.25+, you can use them to implement many-to-many
relationships with JSON arrays.
In this example, User has a BelongsToMany relationship with
Role. There is no pivot table, but the foreign keys are stored as an
array in a JSON field (users.options):
Array of IDs
By default, the relationship stores pivot records as an array of IDs:
class User extends Model
{
use \Staudenmeir\EloquentJsonRelations\HasJsonRelationships;
protected $casts = [
'options' => 'json',
];
public function roles()
{
return $this->belongsToJson('App\Role', 'options->role_ids');
}
}
class Role extends Model
{
use \Staudenmeir\EloquentJsonRelations\HasJsonRelationships;
public function users()
{
return $this->hasManyJson('App\User', 'options->role_ids');
}
}