Can't get correct Eloquent association on polymorphic relationship

Question

I have resources that have a privacy setting applied to them. Namely Community and Event. I created a morphOne relationship on all the resources that will require privacy like so

public function privacy(){
    return $this->morphOne('App\Privacy', 'privacy_resource');
}

I am able to query the privacy setting for collections like so

$profile->events()->with('privacy')->get();

But when I attempt this on an individual resource like so

$event->with('privacy')->get();

I instead get a collection of all items from that resource.

I realize that I might be misusing get() here and its actually getting all the events that have a privacy setting on them. Is there something other than get that I should be using here? Thank you.

Answer 1

After you already retrieved the model, you can use load instead of with.

$event->load('privacy');

This is called Lazy Eager Loading.

In the statement $profile->events()->with('privacy')->get(); on the other hand, you did not yet retrieve the event models from the database. That is why you can use the with method here, which will add a join to the query.