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paginate relational resource in laravel api

I have two models, User and Comment, Each User can have multiple Comment, I can call paginate(3) on User and get 3 User in output per page but I need same thing as User for comments in UserCollection. Is it possible to limit comments that comes by UserCollection by paginating them too?

Solution

  • Yes you can, you just have to add in the third parameter of pageName to the paginate method to differentiate between them.

    Something like:

    $users->paginate($perPage, ['*'], 'users')
$comments->paginate($perPage, ['*'], 'comments_'. $user_id)

    https://laravel.com/api/8.x/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Builder.html#method_paginate

    Note: While you can do this, I personally would just fetch the first 3/5 comments and then have a button saying click to load more and then have a separate route that you call via an AJAX request to get them.