Allow entity's methods calls

[antonioribeiro]

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[GrahamCampbell]

Wait, what? Isn't there an oversite here? This will change behaviour for getting relationships won't it? Because say if an object belongsTo a user, then user() is different to user?

Surely, a better solution would be to add a __call to call the methods on the model?

[antonioribeiro]

Sorry. I will have to look better into this.

[GrahamCampbell]

I still don't get why this has to go in the __get function???

[antonioribeiro]

So people can access methods using:

{{ $entity->present()->methodName }}

and not

{{ $entity->present()->methodName() }}

And not really think about it being a method or a property in the model.

Of course people can just create a acessors (getPropertyNameAttribute), but this way they will also be able to create simple methods and, (only) from the presenter, access them as a properties.

This is exactly what Eloquent does for relationships, isn't it? This should be exclusively used for relationships?

My use case was for a rather complex method, which should be done with a relationship, but couldn't due to some limitations, so I grab some data and do some stuff in that method and return the collection I need. Not really the case for an accessor, imo.

Of course I can extend the Laracasts\Presenter and just use my own, but I'm trying to contribute, because some other people may encounter the same problem.