What's New in Laravel 12.54: Request Intervals, Better Dumps & Selective Relation Unloading

Hello Laval friends. Today we're looking at Laval version 12.54 which is all about better debugging and smarter helpers. Let's go. [music] First up, we got a new interval helper on the request object that lets you pass duration into carbon interval instances. Inside this controller, this is a reminder controller to store a new reminder in the database. We have a title for the reminder and the duration. And we are passing the duration to a carbon interval because it's very nice to work with. And the only thing that we're passing here to the minutes method is the request. And then we're passing the duration to an integer with one of the methods that we already have on the request for casting things. And then we're just creating here a new reminder, setting the title, and then adding the interval to the current time, which is yeah, very nice to use. And we also have a test for this. Let's take a look at the test. Um we're freezing the time here to make sure that we can work with um times. Here we have the reminders endpoint where we send some data in this case 30 minutes as a duration. And then we're getting the only reminder back from the database and making sure that the title is correct and to equal when we add 30 minutes now to the current time. And again this is working. Also, what's really cool here is if we would change this to a string, this is also working. But also, if we would change this to 30 minutes, this would also still work. So, the carbon is very smart about what you pass in here. So, everything good so far, but now we have something new in level that we can use. And we just copy this out here. And instead of passing here the interval which we don't have anymore, we are using now the new interval method on the request object itself which is really handy. And the second argument is the unit which in our case is minute or minutes. Both work here. Let's try to run our test. You can see it's still green. It's still passing. But now we can directly directly run the interval method on the request like we cannot already do with the string integer or dates which is super powerful. And now thanks to this addition this also works with intervals. Thank you S. Next HTTP client dump method now shows the request method URL and status code alongside the response body. In level when you use an HTTP client to make a get request you get the response object back with all information about this response. But we also have in level is this dump method which just dumps out the response here which you can see with the data. But what is new now in the top you will also see where this data comes from which before wasn't that clear but now you can see it was a get request to this endpoint here and you also see the status code which is really helpful for debugging. Thank you S again. And finally, we can now selectively unload the relations from a model without mutating it using the new without relation method. So in this um example, in this demo application, we have posts. So let's grab the first one here. First post. Here we go. Okay, cool. Now let's say we want to get the post with relations. We can do this with the with method with comments in this case is a relation that we have on this post. Let's run this. And fair enough, we get back the post with comments in the response. Okay, cool. Now what we can do is we can also remove comments again. So on the post we are saying without relations. And now we get back our post model without relations. Perfect. And what's cool about this if we now let's say return the post here later, we have our post again with relations inside it. And this is cool for example if you think about you have an action on controller where you need to load all um the post with all the relations then you need to do something specific just without one or two relations you can remove them and you still have your post object back. So this means we have this here we're just creating a clone here and we're not mutating the first one which is cool. So, but there's also a method to unset a relation, a specific one. Um, just a single one. And let's just return this. And yeah, we get back the post without the comments relation. This is working. But what's not working anymore when we see the post has now been mutated. So, this means this method is going to mutate the post model. So, you can't use it with the relation still on the post model. Okay. But now we have something new which is called without relation. And if we try this you can see now we get back at the end here. So this is what we're returning here. The model still has all the comments. This is using clone in order to create a new cloned object here. And now you still have them relations on the model which is sometimes very handy thanks to this new without relation method. Thank you, Sunder. Of course, again, thanks to all the other contributors as well, making Lava better with every release. If this was helpful, please hit the like and subscribe button and see you the next time. Bye.