How Do You Use Laravel Data with Spatie Media?

[rizaldywirawan]

TL;DR

1. When should we draw border for data to be a DTO and to be a resource?
2. If we composite a MediaData (to represents media from Spatie Media) what property will be included?

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Currently, I start use Laravel Data, and sometimes confuse to draw border to treat a DTO as a converter from user input to action class, and when to use them as a resource to show data.

I have this model called Pet, where every pet will have 0 to many photos.

I create 2 DTO for it, for new pet and update pet.

The problem is when we want to include the photo to the data.

Should we create a MediaData (and what should we put inside the property?) and then composite it inside the CreatePetData and UpdatePetData? We have 2 data because different column input when creating and updating.

Sometimes i thought to use the UpdatePetData as resource too, not only DTO, so it will fill the form through the DTO.

Please let me know your thought.

Thank you