Laravel 5.6 - Pass additional parameters to API Resource?

Question

A Laravel API Resource can be either a single resource or a collection. In some cases, additional parameters are required to be passed to the resource/collection from the co

Answer 1

This simple trick worked for me in Laravel 5.8 :)

Controller

$user = User::find($user->id);
$user->access_token = $tokenResult->accessToken; // Add additional data
return new ProfileResource($user);

Resource

public function toArray($request)
{
    return [
        'id'            => $this->id,
        'picture'       => $this->picture,
        'first_name'    => $this->first_name,
        'last_name'     => $this->last_name,
        'active'        => $this->active,
        'access_token'  => isset($this->access_token) ? $this->access_token : '', // Additional data
    ];
}