This is really interesting. Would using protected $with=['relation'] be a good choice for 1:1 relations?
I remember a database where I had a table "material_movements" for internal and external movements. If a movement is external (delivery / shipmen), it needs some extra field and those are store in an extra table called material_movements_external. The tables are linked by a 1:1 relationship and I can't really think about a case where I would not want to load the extarnal data (if it exists).
In this case having something like protected $with=['externalMovement'] would be a good usecase right? If anyone has an opinion on that I'd be interested to hear from you 🙂
This is really interesting. Would using protected $with=['relation'] be a good choice for 1:1 relations?
I remember a database where I had a table "material_movements" for internal and external movements. If a movement is external (delivery / shipmen), it needs some extra field and those are store in an extra table called material_movements_external. The tables are linked by a 1:1 relationship and I can't really think about a case where I would not want to load the extarnal data (if it exists).
In this case having something like protected $with=['externalMovement'] would be a good usecase right? If anyone has an opinion on that I'd be interested to hear from you 🙂
It's hard to say 100% until you actually try it on a real project and ensure that you actually need it EVERYWHERE with all the queries.
Personally, I stopped using
$with
a while ago, "just in case", and became a fan of specifying the relationship needed only when I need it.Because maybe in the future other developers would use the model differently and would wonder why that additional query is coming automatically.