Laravel - Mysql to JSON - mysql

Question

At the moment I have a list of employees as a json file.
{
"id": 1,
"departments": "1",
"name": "Bill Smith",
"profilePic": "/img/people/Office/bill-smith.jpg",
"title": "Office Manager"
},
I now want to store these in the database but still return them as JSON.
How do I set this up with my routes? It will be a very basic filter, by department id.
I presume I would do a get request
Route::get('people/{department}', function () {
});
How do I return the json?

Answer 1

If you have an Employee model, it would look like this:
Route::get('people/{department}', function ($departmentId) {
return Employee::where('department_id', $departmentId)->get();
});
Laravel converts objects to JSON before writing them to the client.

Answer 2

As you said you have list of employees in a json file then First create a DB Seed to store your data in the DATABASE from that particular json file with the help of Seeding.
Lets say you made a table departments in the database and stored your data in all 5 columns(id, departments, name, profilePic, title), Then make a model that with the following command
php artisan make:model Department
For more details about models please visits on https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/eloquent#eloquent-model-conventions
Then simple detect that request through route and return the data as json:
Route::get('people/{department}', function ($departmentId) {
$data = Department::where('departments', $departmentId)->first();
return response()->json($data);
});

Answer 3

The very basic model query would be
Route::get('people/{department}', function ($department) {
return Employee::where('departments',$department)->get();
}
assume Employee is your model
.
Then Laravel automatically will convert your query to json.
FYI: You can also send this request to controller method the return like above