My schema has it that table A has one B which in turn has one C.
When I fetch all A, I can see in my returned data instead of a reference to B; I just get it's id. This is what I want.
When I fetch A->with('B') I get A and object references all the way up to C! I just want A with B references, not C (which is a huge object, bloats my response, and contains sensitive data).
I want to do one of these two things. Either fetch A with B (no C), or find a way to traverse the paginated (using LengthAwarePaginator) object and strip the unwanted Cs.
Are any of these options possible in Laravel? Is there any other approach to achieve the same thing?
I finally found the problem. In my app, B was not subclassing Eloquent directly and in this parent class it was appending an extra attribute. Inside the getter for this attribute there was a call to C so no matter what I did, C was always being required by this appended attribute! I've removed all that unneeded subclassing and it now works as expected.