Laravel - how to makeVisible an attribute in a Laravel relation?

Question

I use in my model code to get a relation

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    // ...
    public function extensions()
    {
        return $this->belongsToMany(Extension::class, 'v_extension_users', 'user_uuid', 'extension_uuid');
    }
    // ...
}

The Extension has field password hidden.

class Extension extends Model
{
    // ...
    protected $hidden = [
        'password',
    ];
    // ...
}

Under some circumstances I want to makeVisible the password field.

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Well, I got the idea from https://stackoverflow.com/a/38297876/518704

Since my relation model Extension::class is called by name in my code return $this->belongsToMany(Extension::class,... I cannot even pass parameter to it's constructor.

So to pass something to the constructor I may use static class variables.

So in my Extension model I add static variables and run makeVisible method. Later I destruct the variables to be sure next calls and instances use default model settings.

I moved this to a trait, but here I show at my model example.

class Extension extends Model
{
    public static $staticMakeVisible;

    public function __construct($attributes = array())
    {
      parent::__construct($attributes);

      if (isset(self::$staticMakeVisible)){
          $this->makeVisible(self::$staticMakeVisible);
      }
   }
.....

    public function __destruct()
    {
      self::$staticMakeVisible = null;
    }

}

And in my relation I use something like this

class User extends Authenticatable
{
...
    public function extensions()
    {
        $class = Extension::class;
        $class::$staticMakeVisible = ['password'];

        return $this->belongsToMany(Extension::class, 'v_extension_users', 'user_uuid', 'extension_uuid');
    }
...
}