How to return a collection in API Resource ?

[jameswong3388]

I have a Showcase API resource that needs all mode's media, How can I achieve that?

Controller

public function index(Showcase $showcase)
    {
        $showcases = $showcase->withTotalVisitCount()->with('media')
            ->paginate(25);

        return ShowcaseResource::collection($showcases);
    }

API Resouce

class ShowcaseResource extends JsonResource
{
/**
     * Transform the resource into an array.
     *
     * @param Request $request
     * @return array|Arrayable|JsonSerializable
     */
    public function toArray($request): array|JsonSerializable|Arrayable
    {
        return [
            ```
            'cover_image' => // return all the media's collection 'cover_image` and probably turn that into a URL 
            ```
        ];
    }
}

[hadesunseenn]

here is what worked for me, updating your code here

public function index(Showcase $showcase)
    {
        $showcases = $showcase->withTotalVisitCount()->paginate(25);

        return ShowcaseResource::collection($showcases);
    }

Now in ShowcaseResource

public function toArray($request): array|JsonSerializable|Arrayable
    {
        return [
            ```
            'cover_images' => MediaResource::collection($this->media),
            ```
        ];
    }

and now in MediaResource

public function toArray($request)
    {
        return [
            'id' => $this->id,
            'file_name' => $this->file_name,
            'size' => $this->size,
            'original_url' => $this->original_url,
            'preview_url' => $this->preview_url,
            'public_url' => $this->getUrl(),
            'getFullUrl' => $this->getFullUrl(),
            'getPath' => $this->getPath(),
            'temporaryS3Url' => $this->getTemporaryUrl(Carbon::now()->addMinutes(5)),
        ];
    }