Using a where condition in multtiple relation eager load in laravel

Question

I have three models

A user created a meeting and other members are invited to that meeting

I need to get the meeting with the detail of the user who created the meeting for the user that is invited to that meeting

So I have an meeting table

Model Meeting

function creator() {
     return $this->belongsTo( 'User', 'created_by' );
}

function attendees() {
    return $this->hasMany('MeetingAttendees');
}

Model User

function invitedMeetings() {
    return $this->hasMany( 'MeetingAttendees' );
}

Model Meeting Attendees

function meeting() {
    return $this->belongsTo('Meeting');
}

and finally the code to load the relation. where $user is the User Object

$user->invitedMeetings()
                ->with(['meeting.creator' => function ($query) use ($status) {
                    if (!empty($status)) {
                        $query->where('meetings.status', '=', $status);
                    }
                }])->get();

I need to get only meetings where the $status has a certain value, but the where is adding a query to user table. I cannot seem to add a where in the relation load. How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

You should be able to do this much easier

$user->invitedMeetings()
     ->with(['meeting', 'meeting.creator'])
     ->where('status', '=', 'accepted')
     ->get()

//If you want to do a check on another table

$user->invitedMeetings()
     ->with(['meeting', 'meeting.creator'])
     ->where('meeting.status', '=', 'accepted')
     ->get()

Have a look here to get a better understanding about nesting eloquent relations: Eloquent Nested Relation with Some Constraint

Answer 2

I have figured out the answer for this, so

$user->invitedMeetings()
                ->with(['meeting.creator' => function ($query) use ($status) {
                    if (!empty($status)) {
                        $query->where('meetings.status', '=', $status);
                    }
                }])->get();

should be changed to

$user->invitedMeetings()
                ->with(['meeting' => function ($query) use ($status) {
                     $query->where('meetings.status', '=', $status)->with('creator');

            }])->get();

This solved my issue