John Davidson

Message:

I have a model called Shift on my application, and I've defined my relationships and scopes on it like this:

Relationship:

public function status()

{

    return $this->belongsTo(ShiftStatus::class);

}

With scope:

public function scopeWithStatus($query)

{

    $query->with('status');

}

Now, when I retrieve shifts and try to call these scopes, I do the following:

$shifts = Shift::all()

            ->withStatus()

            ->withProfession()

            ...

            ->get();



        return response([

            'message' => 'Shifts retrieved.',

            'shifts' => $shifts

        ]);

However, I get this error...

"message": "Method Illuminate\\Database\\Eloquent\\Collection::withStatus does not exist.",

I'm not sure why this is happening? It should pick up the scope shouldn't it?

---

My Answer:
The issue here is that you are trying to call the `withStatus()` scope on the collection returned by `Shift::all()`, but scopes are meant to be called on the query builder instance, not on the collection.

To fix this issue, you should modify your code like this:

php
$shifts = Shift::withStatus()
->withProfession()
...
->get();

return response([
'message' => 'Shifts retrieved.',
'shifts' => $shifts
]);


By calling the `withStatus()` scope directly on the `Shift` model query builder instance, you should be able to retrieve the shifts with the status relationship loaded correctly.