Laravel return custom api resource

Question

I am currently creating an API to display the count of documents by types.

This is my type table:

id	name
1	abc
2	bcd
3	efd

And this is my documents tables:

id	document_name	type_id
1	abc	1
2	bcd	2
3	efd	3

I want to return my Resource like this:

'title' => 'Title',
'types' => [
    [
        'label' => 'abc',
        'total' => 1
    ],
    [
        'label' => 'bcd',
        'total' => 2
    ],
    [
        'label' => 'efd',
        'total' => 3
    ]
]

How can I create a custom resource with looping?

Answer 1

You could create a resource that works for a single object, then use resource collection for the types to loop over the documents.

https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/eloquent-resources#resource-collections