How To Cast Eloquent Pivot Parameters?

Question

I have the following Eloquent Models with relationships:

class Lead extends Model 
{
    public function contacts() 
    {
        return $this->belongsTo         


        

Answer 1

I had to add some extra checks to have the save and load functions working properly in Laravel 5.

class BasePivot extends Pivot
{
    private $loading = false;

    public function __construct(Model $parent, array $attributes, $table, $exists)
    {
        $this->loading = true;
        parent::__construct($parent, $attributes, $table, $exists);
        $this->loading = false;
    }

    public function setAttribute($key, $value)
    {
        // First we will check for the presence of a mutator for the set operation
        // which simply lets the developers tweak the attribute as it is set on
        // the model, such as "json_encoding" an listing of data for storage.
        if ($this->hasSetMutator($key)) {
            $method = 'set'.Str::studly($key).'Attribute';

            return $this->{$method}($value);
        }

        // If an attribute is listed as a "date", we'll convert it from a DateTime
        // instance into a form proper for storage on the database tables using
        // the connection grammar's date format. We will auto set the values.
        elseif ($value && (in_array($key, $this->getDates()) || $this->isDateCastable($key))) {
            $value = $this->fromDateTime($value);
        }

        /**
         * @bug
         * BUG, double casting
         */
        if (!$this->loading && $this->isJsonCastable($key) && ! is_null($value)) {
            $value = $this->asJson($value);
        }


        $this->attributes[$key] = $value;

        return $this;
    }
}