Laravel cannot echo softdeletes field error Carbon Data Missing - php

Question

I wanna check if the data has been deletes. So i use eloquent like:
$check = ModelName::withTrashed()->where("id","=",$id)
->select("id","deleted_at","other_field")
->get();
foreach ($check as $rw) {
echo $rw->id; // it print the id
echo $rw->other_field; //also print the field value
echo $rw->deleted_at; // Error:
//InvalidArgumentException in Carbon.php line 425:
//Data missing
//at Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s.000', '2016-09-19 07:06:56') in Model.php line 2955
}
Then i try to dump to see the value:
dd($check);
The result of deleted_at echo it value like:
#attributes: array:3 [▼
"id" => 1
"deleted_at" => "2016-09-19 07:06:56"

Answer 1

EDIT:
In the error message, date format used by Carbon seems to be a bit off. Try to specify it in your model manually:
protected $dateFormat = 'Y-m-d H:i:s';
I'm leaving the first part of the answer because that might also help someone who stumbles on this topic through search.
dd() stops after the first value, which is soft-deleted in your case, so you simply stop execution before the error. If you remove dd, the loop continues until it breaks. So if you wanna check the all the data up until the error, use print_r instead of dd(), so that output would not stop the script.
Now about your exception. The problem is when Carbon encouters a field that is NULL - a record that's not deleted. It tries to parse null into a date and obviously fails.
Your approach should be changed - you could check if the record is soft deleted before trying to access it's deleted_at timestamp:
$check = ModelName::withTrashed()->where("id","=",$id)
->select("id","deleted_at","other_field")
->get();
foreach ($check as $rw) {
echo $rw->id; // it print the id
echo $rw->other_field; //also print the field value
if ($rw->trashed())
echo $rw->deleted_at;
}
Another, less elegant solution would be to remove deleted_at from $dates array in model and stop the automatic parsing. Then you would write a custom accessor in your model:
public function getDeletedAtAttribute($value)
{
return $value ? Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $value) : NULL;
}
I would recommend the first approach.