Best way to load child/parent roles and permissions?

[Sean-OShea]

Hi everyone,

My use case is that i have a hierarchy of users. And sometimes i need to check the permission of a child or parent user. I've been surprised that none of those works (please correct me if i'm wrong).

• eager load by default on the User model : protected $with = ['roles.permissions', 'permissions'];
• eager load on the relationship method

    public function parent(){
        return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\User')->with(['roles.permissions', 'permissions']);
    }

Because i don't want to have to explicitly eager load every time i get my user's parent, here is the method i use :

    /**
     * @return User|null
     */
    public function getParent()
    {
        $parent = $this->parent;
        $parent?->load('roles.permissions', 'permissions');
        return $parent;
    }

Am i missing something? I feel like it must be a common use case but i haven't found a discussion on that specific parent/child relationship. Thanks everyone and have a nice day.
Sean.

Edit : i must specify that i'm also using the team feature, but a user hierarchy always share the same team_id (and it is set on each request with a middleware for the authenticated user as described in the documentation).