Updating has many relationship in Laravel - php

Question

I'm building a small application in Laravel 5.5 where I'm having two models: Interaction and Interaction Summary in my Interaction model I'm having following relationship:
public function meetingSummaries()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\InteractionSummary');
}
Now to create the interaction I'm using following in my controller:
$data = $request->only('user_id', 'event_type', 'schedule', 'summaries', 'type', 'venue', 'with_client');
$data['schedule'] = Carbon::parse($request->schedule)->addHours(5)->addMinutes(30)->toDateTimeString();
$meeting = [];
$meeting['user_id']= $data['user_id'];
$meeting['schedule'] = $data['schedule'];
$meeting['type'] = $data['type'];
$meeting['with_client'] = $data['with_client'];
$meeting['venue'] = $data['venue'];
$meeting['event_type'] = $data['event_type'];
$interaction = Interaction::create($meeting);
if($data['summaries'])
{
$container = [];
foreach($data['summaries'] as $summary)
{
$summary = (Object)$summary;
if($summary->client['label'])
{
$container[] = new InteractionSummary([
'company_id' => $summary->client['label'],
'nature' => $summary->type,
'user_id' => $summary->mention['label'],
'action' => $summary->action,
'feedback' => $summary->comment
]);
}
}
}
$interaction->meetingSummaries()->saveMany($container);
}
But while updating I don't know to overcome this, as in my fields there might be new or old relational data. I'm trying something like this:
if($data['summaries'])
{
$container = [];
foreach($data['summaries'] as $summary)
{
$summary = (Object)$summary;
if($summary->id)
{
$container[] = new InteractionSummary([
'id' => $summary->id,
'company_id' => $summary->client['value'],
'nature' => $summary->type,
'user_id' => $summary->mention['value'],
'action' => $summary->action,
'feedback' => $summary->comment
]);
}
else {
$container[] = new InteractionSummary([
'company_id' => $summary->client['value'],
'nature' => $summary->type,
'user_id' => $summary->mention['value'],
'action' => $summary->action,
'feedback' => $summary->comment
]);
}
}
$interaction->meetingSummaries()->save($container);
}
Which is sending me error:
Type error: Argument 1 passed to Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\HasOneOrMany::save() must be an instance of Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model, array given, called in ~\app\Http\Controllers\InteractionsController.php on line 449
If I do:
$interaction->meetingSummaries()->saveMany($container);
I get repeated new fields.
Guide me how to overcome this. Thanks.

Answer 1

Use the findOrNew() method:
$summaryItem = InteractionSummary::findOrNew($summary->id);
$summaryItem->fill([
'company_id' => $summary->client['value'],
'nature' => $summary->type,
'user_id' => $summary->mention['value'],
'action' => $summary->action,
'feedback' => $summary->comment
]);