Laravel 5.2 eloquent relationship eager fetching - eloquent

Question

I have extended my user model to have a role, the tables are as follows
users(id,name,email,password,remember_token, role_id,created_at,updated_at)
roles(id,name,description,created_at,updated_at)
then the User model is
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
class User extends Authenticatable
{
/**
* The attributes that are mass assignable.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $fillable = [
'name', 'email', 'password',
];
/**
* The attributes excluded from the model's JSON form.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $hidden = [
'password', 'remember_token',
];
public function role()
{
return $this->hasOne('App\Models\Role', 'id', 'role_id');
}
}
and the Role model is
<?php
namespace App\Models;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Role extends Model {
protected $table = 'roles';
public function users()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\User', 'role_id', 'id');
}
}
I am returning the Users as json and i want them to eager fetch the role using query builder
$users = DB::table('users')->skip($skip)->take($size)->get();
the output i am getting is
{"id":1,"name":"Vinnie Ashken","email":"ashken#eml.cc","password":"$2y$10$fsSxekoktUV5xqe02hMZIuWVRpykmMvjGa.AJUriCEX.KPRfj.Yk.","role_id":1,"remember_token":"184J9pVLf9N2yQ5YfD9Yf5d88uavn0dCFGsAaXnamXKiIbLugIKAVJTmS1t6","created_at":"2016-03-16 00:23:56","updated_at":"2016-03-16 00:42:56"}
what i want is
{"id":1,"name":"Vinnie Ashken","email":"ashken#eml.cc","password":"$2y$10$fsSxekoktUV5xqe02hMZIuWVRpykmMvjGa.AJUriCEX.KPRfj.Yk.","role":{"id":1, "name":"Administrator","description":"test"},"remember_token":"184J9pVLf9N2yQ5YfD9Yf5d88uavn0dCFGsAaXnamXKiIbLugIKAVJTmS1t6","created_at":"2016-03-16 00:23:56","updated_at":"2016-03-16 00:42:56"}

Answer 1

Try using the full Eloquent model (User::) instead of the bare query builder (DB::table('users')). Then you'll be able to use with and other Relationship methods (in addition to all of the query builder methods):
$users = App\User::with('role')->skip($skip)->take($size)->get();