Error when using resolve() with laravel-data classes about laravel-data

[koomai]

$data = json_decode($json, true);

$data['animal']['class']::from($data['animal']);

[verner-lall]

I am curious why even use resolve for that? Can you not use ContactData::from($yourData) or ContactData::createAndValidate($yourData) as documentation suggests?

[abdevcode]

Let me give an example of what I am doing.
Imagine that I have a house and I have animals (different type of animals with different properties)
The code would be something like this

interface Animal {}

class DogData extends Data implements Animal
{
    public string $class = self::class;

    public function __construct(
        public string $name,
        public string $color,
    ){}
}

class BirdData extends Data implements Animal
{
    public string $class = self::class;

    public function __construct(
        public string $name,
        public float $weight,
    ){}
}

class HouseData extends Data implements Animal
{
    public function __construct(
        public Animal $animal,
    ){}
}

So now I can have one animal in my house, doing this

        $bird = BirdData::from([
            'name' => 'Alice',
            'weight' => 12.34,
        ]);

        $dog = DogData::from([
            'name' => 'Bob',
            'color' => 'black',
        ]);

        $house = HouseData::from([
            'animal' => $bird,
        ]);

or

        $house = HouseData::from([
            'animal' => $dog,
        ]);

Now, I want to save this in the DB, to achieve that I am using json_encode($house)

"{"animal":{"class":"App\\Http\\Controllers\\BirdData","name":"Alice","weight":12.34}}"
"{"animal":{"class":"App\\Http\\Controllers\\DogData","name":"Bob","color":"black"}}"

Great! However... the problem is how to get the data object again from the json_decode($data)

That's why I am doing all this, I don't know if there is any better way to achieve this behaviour

[rubenvanassche]

We do not support resolve with parameters at the moment. Use the solution koomai presents or write a custom creation method for string. Maybe the eloquent casts can be usefull?