Laravel/Eloquent - Eager loaded hidden/visible properties

Question

When using Laravel\'s Eloquent ORM, I can\'t seem to set the $hidden and $visible properties on my Model dynamically.

Example 1: This works:

Answer 1

This is something I invent for this purpose:

  use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

  /*
   * trait allows to use a single method:
   *      getSerialized
   * this function works as the following method:
   *      Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder::get(), 
   * and also returns the collection
   * but accepts a parameter of an array type
   * like that
   *      $records = Table1::getSerialized([
   *               'appends' => ['calc_field1', 'calc_field2'],
   *               'hidden' => ['field1', 'field2', 'field3'],
   *               'visible' => ['id', 'name', 'calc_field1', 'calc_field2'],
   *           ]);
   * 
   * the returned collection accords with params 
   * read more in Laravel documentation
   *      https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/eloquent-serialization
   */

  trait Serialization
  {
  // scope filters ---------------------------------------------------------         
      private static $staticAppends;
      private static $staticHidden;
      private static $staticVisible;

      public function __construct(array $attributes = []){
          parent::__construct($attributes);
          if (isset(self::$staticAppends)){
              $this->appends = self::$staticAppends;
          }
          if (isset(self::$staticHidden)){
              $this->hidden = self::$staticHidden;
          }
          if (isset(self::$staticVisible)){
              $this->visible = self::$staticVisible;
          }

      }

      public function scopeGetSerialized($query, array $params){

          if (isset(self::$staticAppends)){
              $staticAppends = self::$staticAppends;
          } else {
              $staticAppends = [];
          }
          if (isset(self::$staticHidden)){
              $staticHidden = self::$staticHidden;
          } else {
              $staticHidden = [];
          }
          if (isset(self::$staticVisible)){
              $staticVisible = self::$staticVisible;
          }else {
              $staticVisible = [];
          }

          if (isset($params['appends'])){
              self::$staticAppends = $params['appends'];
          }
          if (isset($params['hidden'])){
              self::$staticHidden =  $params['hidden'];
          }
          if (isset($params['visible'])){
              self::$staticVisible =  $params['visible'];
          }

          $res = $query->get();

          self::$staticAppends = $staticAppends;
          self::$staticHidden = $staticHidden;
          self::$staticVisible = $staticVisible;
          return $res;
      }
  }

Answer 2

As $visible is set on an instance level (i.e. it's not a static variable shared between all models of the same type), no - there's no better way to do this.