nested properties in request object

[camiant]

How to automatically cast values when they are, for example, properties of an object inside your payload?

use Spatie\LaravelData\Data;

class SongData extends Data
{
    public function __construct(
        public string $title,
        public string $artist,
    ) {
    }
}

let's say in my example title and artist are properties of song object.. readable by laravel as request('song.title') and request('song.artist')

If the autobinding is not possible, what's the suggested workaround?

[rubenvanassche]

Magic creation functions should solve this problem: https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-data/v1/as-a-data-transfer-object/creating-a-data-object#magical-creation. You can just type a request as the parameter and then set the properties correctly into the data object.

[camiant]

Thanks for your attention, Ruben! According to the docs, magical creation works only fromModel or fromString..
Any change to make it work when data comes ... fromRequest ? 😊

[rubenvanassche]

Normally adding the fromRequest method to the data class with a Request as parameter this should work. That's how it has been implemented, when a request comes in the Request is passed into the from method which will automatically select the most correct method to handle the request.