Laravel-datatables: Everything works fine except for the column sort that has relationship.

[winex01]

Summary of problem or feature request

Everything works fine except for the column sort that has relationship.

Error:

Code snippet of problem

Table:

• activity_logger
  
  
  
  • id
  
  
  • description
  
  
  • userId (No FK constraint)
  
  
  • created_at
  
  
  • updated_at
  
  
  • etc...
  
  

• users
  
  
  
  • id
  
  
  • name
  
  
  • email
  
  
  • etc...
  
  

Models w/ Relationship:

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class ActivityLog extends Model
{
    //
    protected $table = 'activity_logger';

    public function user()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('\App\User', 'userId');
    }

}

DataTable Service Class:

<?php

namespace App\DataTables;

use App\ActivityLog;
use Yajra\DataTables\Services\DataTable;

class ActivityLogsDataTable extends DataTable
{
    /**
     * Build DataTable class.
     *
     * @param mixed $query Results from query() method.
     * @return \Yajra\DataTables\DataTableAbstract
     */
    public function dataTable($query)
    {
        return datatables(
            $query->with('user')->select('*')
        );

    }

    /**
     * Get query source of dataTable.
     *
     * @param \App\ActivityLog $model
     * @return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder
     */
    public function query(ActivityLog $model)
    {
        return $model->newQuery()->select(
            'id',
            'created_at',
            'user.name',
            'description'
        );
    }

    /**
     * Optional method if you want to use html builder.
     *
     * @return \Yajra\DataTables\Html\Builder
     */
    public function html()
    {
        return $this->builder()
                    ->columns($this->getColumns())
                    ->minifiedAjax();
    }

    /**
     * Get columns.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    protected function getColumns()
    {
        return [
            'id',
            'created_at',
            'user.name',
            'description',
        ];
    }

    /**
     * Get filename for export.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    protected function filename()
    {
        return 'ActivityLogs_' . date('YmdHis');
    }
}

System details

• Windows 7. (using Laragon v4.0.14)
• PHP Version 7.2.11
• Laravel Version 5.8
• Laravel-Datatables Version
  
  
  
  • "yajra/laravel-datatables-buttons": "^4.6"
  
  
  • "yajra/laravel-datatables-html": "^4.4"
  
  
  • "yajra/laravel-datatables-oracle": "^9.4"
  
  

[winex01]

Unknown column user.name because i didn't join or select the users table.
this fix my problem:

public function query(ActivityLog $model)
 {
        return $model->newQuery()->with('user')->has('user')
               ->select('users.id','users.name', 'activity_logger.*');
 }

[winex01]

BTW, thanks for this bad ass package,. really appreciate it.