Conditional property exclusion on serialization

[innocenzi]

Hey,

I'm wondering if there is a nice way to conditionally exclude (or include) properties of a DTO.

In my case, I'm using laravel-data together with Inertia, and I'd like to not expose certain properties depending on the authorization level of users. For instance, I don't want id to be present most of the times, but I do want them in the admin panel.

Is there any way to do that without creating another DTO? I couldn't find anything on the docs. I don't think lazy properties solve the use case because we can force them via URL (and I didn't see a way to disable that), and I'd like to not have to redefine a from* method.

Ideally, something simple like:

public function excludeWhen() {
    return [
        'id' => !auth()->user()->is_admin
    ];
}

[innocenzi]

Looks like #5 would be similar

[rubenvanassche]

Hi @innocenzi,

At the moment there's no support for this. I think some people are looking into it but I'm not sure. Currently working on data v2 so I've added it on a maybe list(#84) but I really want to get this version released without constantly adding new features 😄 . Feel free to send a PR adding this feature.

[innocenzi]

Thanks for the answer!