Laravel JSON to Array Casting

Question

is there any reason eloquent $casts wouldnt be working?

I am storing json, json column type, and

protected $casts = [
    'fields' => 'array'
];

But..

\App\Lead::find(1)->fields

still returns json

"{"first_name":"Brian","last_name":"Dillingham","email":"[email protected]"}"

Doesn't even work when I mutate

public function getFieldsAttribute($value)
{
    return json_decode($value, true);
}

But works when I

dd(json_decode(\App\Lead::find(1)->fields, true));

I think its because I am manually storing the json in a text field, sorry cant delete the question — Brian Dillingham
– Brian Dillingham, Commented Nov 15, 2016 at 18:45

Eric Tucker · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-15 18:44:20Z

1

Just type cast it from your mutator function:

public function getFieldsAttribute($value)
{
    return (array) json_decode($value, true);
}

answered Nov 15, 2016 at 18:44

Eric Tucker

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