Laravel 5.4 field doesn't have a default value

Question

I am having this error and none of the googled result i checked is similar to my problem.

I have an application with class Deal, User, and Matches

A deal has

Answer 1

Alexey Mezenin's Answer is correct and a good one.

Another way i used around it, for those who want to maintain the guarded empty array is to create a new Match object and put in the attributes and save.

            $match->user_id = $id;
            $match->deal_id = $deal->id;
            $match->matched_on = $match->freshTimestamp();
            $match->save();