Polymorphic eager loading with select not working (correctly)

[rogierborst]

I have three tables, 'actors', 'series' and 'movies'. An actor can belong to many series and/or many movies, and both movies and series can have many actors. Good case for a polymorphic many-to-many relationship.

When I query all movies, I wish to eager load all actors, but only their first and last names. For this I do the following:

return Movie::with(array('actors' => function($query){
    $query->select('first_name', 'last_name');
}))->get();

This however still loads ALL columns for actors, since the resulting query is this one:

// showing only the relevant part of the query that was built
... select `first_name`, `last_name`, `actors`.* ... from `actors`

The issue here, is that the columns I requested (first_name and last_name) are indeed inserted into the query (first two fields), but then the actors.*` is automatically added, which obviously loads the rest of the columns as well.

I'm not smart enough to figure out how Laravel actually builds this query, so I'm not at all able to contribute with a pull request. Sorry.

[taylorotwell]

We don't currently support limiting the selects on those relations because if it's not done properly it can break the query. You can remove the columns once the data has been retrieved if you like.

[fmmajd]

is it still an issue? or is there support for such things now?

[websanova]

Is there any way to set visible hidden properties on the relation directly then?

[staudenmeir]

This has been fixed in Laravel 5.7.6 (#25662).

[lk77]

Hello,

#25662 introduce a bug,
we have thousand of queries using the with 'relation:field' syntax with polymorphic relations,
and it's not working anymore, the relation is now empty.
i don't know why, but it dont happen in 5.7.5, only until 5.7.6

work :

->with('morphTo');

don't work :

->with('morphTo:id,label');

if you have an idea, thanks.

[acacha]

ping to @staudenmeir

[staudenmeir]

@acacha Why?

[lk77]

@acacha if the ping is because of my post, it has been resolved.

the precise syntax we were using was :

->with('morphTo:label');

without the id (contrary to what i said earlier)

Since 5.7.6, the select clause is applied, it was not the case in 5.7.5.
It fails because of the missing id, and it breaks the app.
It has been reworked and solved for us.