Laravel return one model + association as JSON - json

Question

I'm looking for a way to return a model as JSON including an association model after save (within a controller).
I know how to respond as JSON with associations by doing the following :
$objects = MyModel::with(['assocation1', 'association2.dependencies'])->get();
return response()->json($objects, 200);
But in a case of an object already found ? I've tried to use the same concept as above but it returns every rows.
$object = MyModel::first();
$object->with(['assocation1', 'association2.dependencies'])->get();
Laravel's documentation unfortunately does says much about it. What I'm trying to do is to return a JSON object including an association after save, within a controller :
class ExampleController extends Controller {
public function store()
{
$object = new MyModel($request->input('object'));
$response = DB::transaction(function () use ($object) {
if (object()->save()) {
// Here I want to return the object with association1 as JSON
return response()->json($object->with('association1')->get(), 201);
}
});
return $response;
}
}
Edit
More clarification about this case. Using either with or load seems to produce the same result: returning all rows from the Object object including associations. My goal here is to only return ONE object with it's association as JSON, not all of them.

Answer 1

I believe you aren't as far off as you think. In your second example, you shouldn't call get(). Try this instead:
if ( $object = $object->save() )
{
$object->load(['assocation1', 'association2.dependencies']);
return response()->json($object, 201);
}