Is there a clean way to enable certain models to be ordered by a property by default? It could work by extending the laravel's QueryBuilder, but to do so, you'll have to rewire some of it's core features - bad practice.
reason个
The main point of doing this is - one of my models get's heavily reused by many others and right now you have to resort the order over and over again. Even when using a closure for this - you still have to call it. It would be much better to be able to apply a default sorting, so everyone who uses this model, and does not provide custom sorting options, will receive records sorted by the default option. Using a repository is not an option here, because it get's eager loaded.
SOLUTION
Extending the base model:
protected $orderBy;
protected $orderDirection = 'ASC';
public function scopeOrdered($query)
{
if ($this->orderBy)
{
return $query->orderBy($this->orderBy, $this->orderDirection);
}
return $query;
}
public function scopeGetOrdered($query)
{
return $this->scopeOrdered($query)->get();
}
In your model:
protected $orderBy = 'property';
protected $orderDirection = 'DESC';
// ordering eager loaded relation
public function anotherModel()
{
return $this->belongsToMany('SomeModel', 'some_table')->ordered();
}
在您的控制器中:
MyModel::with('anotherModel')->getOrdered();
// or
MyModel::with('anotherModel')->ordered()->first();