How can I get exact user plus the user's exact posts in laravel from jwt token

Question

I'm trying to get the logged in users details by sending the jwt into the headers, but I also want to get the user's details in another table. I want to see the user's details plus the user's post in another table as well. This the function

public function getAuthenticatedUser()
{
    try {

        if (! $user = JWTAuth::parseToken()->authenticate()) {
            return response()->json(['user_not_found'], 404);
        }

    } catch (Tymon\JWTAuth\Exceptions\TokenExpiredException $e) {

        return response()->json(['token_expired'], $e->getStatusCode());

    } catch (Tymon\JWTAuth\Exceptions\TokenInvalidException $e) {

        return response()->json(['token_invalid'], $e->getStatusCode());

    } catch (Tymon\JWTAuth\Exceptions\JWTException $e) {

        return response()->json(['token_absent'], $e->getStatusCode());

    }

    // the token is valid and we have found the user via the sub claim

    $user = auth()->user();
    $userid = User::where('id', $user->id)->first();
    $return = UserResource::collection($userid);   
    return response()->json($return);


}

This is the error message

<!--
BadMethodCallException: Call to undefined method App\User::mapInto() in file C:\xampp\htdocs\doc\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Support\Traits\ForwardsCalls.php on line 50

#0 C:\xampp\htdocs\doc\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Support\Traits\ForwardsCalls.php(36): Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model::throwBadMethodCallException('mapInto')
#1 C:\xampp\htdocs\doc\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model.php(1620): Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model->forwardCallTo(Object(Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder), 'mapInto', Array)
#2 C:\xampp\htdocs\doc\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Http\Resources\CollectsResources.php(30): Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model->__call('mapInto', Array)
#3 C:\xampp\htdocs\doc\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Http\Resources\Json\ResourceCollection.php(52): Illuminate\Http\Resources\Json\ResourceCollection->collectResource(Object(App\User))
#4 C:\xampp\htdocs\doc\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Http\Resources\Json\AnonymousResourceCollection.php(25): Illuminate\Http\Resources\Json\ResourceCollection->__construct(Object(App\User))
#5 C:\xampp\htdocs\doc\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Http\Resources\Json\JsonResource.php(78): Illuminate\Http\Resources\Json\AnonymousResourceCollection->__construct(Object(App\User), 'App\\Http\\Resour...')
#6 C:\xampp\htdocs\doc\app\Http\Controllers\getUserController.php(67): Illuminate\Http\Resources\Json\JsonResource::collection(Object(App\User))
#7 [internal function]: App\Http\Controllers\getUserController->getAuthenticatedUser()
#8 C:\xampp\htdocs\doc\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Routing\Controller.php(54): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)

While this is the App\\User (user model)

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Tymon\JWTAuth\Contracts\JWTSubject;
use Illuminate\Auth\Passwords\CanResetPassword;
use Auth;


class User extends Authenticatable implements MustVerifyEmail, JWTSubject
{
    use Notifiable;
    public function __construct()
        {

            Auth::shouldUse('users');
        }

    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $fillable = [
        'name', 'email', 'phone', 'password', 'Age', 'Blood', 'Gender', 'Height', 'Weight', 'picture', 'history', 'record',
    ];

    /**
     * The attributes that should be hidden for arrays.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $hidden = [
        'password', 'remember_token',
    ];

    /**
     * The attributes that should be cast to native types.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $casts = [
        'email_verified_at' => 'datetime',
    ];

    public function getJWTIdentifier()
    {
        return $this->getKey();
    }


    public function getJWTCustomClaims()
    {
        return [];
    }


    public function appointment(){
        return $this->hasMany('App\Appointment');
    }
}

What is the possible fix?

Answer 1

Take a look at the documentation about resource collections.

You can see they are using User::all() . You on the other hand are using User::where('id', $user->id)->first(); . The difference between those is the return value. all() returns a Collection , first() returns (in this case) a single User instance.

The error you are getting already tells you what is wrong. "Call to undefined method App\\User::mapInto()". It tries to call mapInto on a User . However mapInto is a method of Collection .

Knowing this we could do things depening what you want.

Do you want to return multiple users?

UserResource::collection(User::all());

Do you want to return one user?

// You already have user from auth()->user(). No need to refetch it.
new UserResource(auth()->user());

For adding the posts of the user I suggest you take a look at eager loading a relationship and conditionally adding it to the UserResource .

Eager loading and conditionally adding a relationship are not required in this scenario, but I highly suggest to do this guessing you might use the UserResource also for returning multiple User instances.