Laravel4 one-to-one relationship is not loaded when in testing environment - php

Question

Im currently facing this strange behaviour.
<?php
// Models
class User extends \Eloquent {
protected $table = 'user';
public $timestamps = FALSE;
public function credit() {
return $this->hasOne('Credit', 'uid');
}
}
class Credit extends \Eloquent {
protected $table = 'user_credit';
public $timestamps = FALSE;
public function user() {
return $this->belongsTo('User', 'uid');
}
}
// Service
function doThings() {
// This is always working
$credit = Credit::where('uid', $user->id)->first();
// This doesn't work in test environment, but it does outside of it, i.e. in a route
// $credit = $user->credit;
if (empty($credit)) {
$credit = new Credit();
// Set some fields... then save.
$credit->foo = 'bar';
}
$user->credit()->save($credit);
}
// Test
Service::doThings(); // <--- works as expected the first time
Service::doThings(); // <--- fails, trying to save a new record instead of updating.
// In a test route
Route::get('/test', function() {
$user = User::find(1);
Service::doThings(); // <--- works as expected
Service::doThings(); // <--- works as expected
Service::doThings(); // <--- works as expected
return 'test';
});
Problem is that when accessing the credit model via the $user->credit, in the testing environment the model is not loaded and NULL is returned regardless the presence of the item inside the database.. It works when explicitly loaded, using Credit::find().
Outside the testing env, things works as expected.
Any hint?

Answer 1

In your class
class User extends \Eloquent {
protected $table = 'user';
public $timestamps = FALSE;
public function credit() {
return $this->hasOne('User', 'uid');
}
}
You should use (to make a one to one relation between User <-> Credit using a custom key uid)
class User extends \Eloquent {
protected $table = 'user';
public $timestamps = FALSE;
public function credit() {
return $this->hasOne('Credit', 'uid'); // <---
}
}
So, you can query like
$credit = User::find(1)->credit;