Laravel 4 Model events. Possible to do reading, read type event after query results are set on a model?

Question

In Laravel 4 there are Model events for creating, created, updating, updated etc.

Has anyone found a way to do something similar to a reading, read event without hacking / extending the QueryBuilder class?

Even if it isn't an event per say, I would like to find a way to achieve this before/during/after (either one of those) query results have been injected into the model attributes.

So far I am just overriding the getAttributeFromArray method on my core/base model class which works but obviously runs the logic everytime you try to grab an attribute/property in the model (Could end up being a costly operation down the line).

Thanks!

Answer 1

I was able to achieve this by adding and overriding 1 method in my core/base model class (extends eloquent\model)

public static function read($callback)
{
    static::registerModelEvent('read', $callback);
}

public function setRawAttributes(array $attributes, $sync = false)
{

    parent::setRawAttributes($attributes,$sync);

    $this->fireModelEvent('read');
}

This way my read event will only fire once when the results are injected into the model(s). instead of having the event run per __get call on the model.