laravel Lazy Eager Loading with orderBy related model

Question

I need to lazy eager load some related models with custom order. Something like:

$season->load(['championships' => function ($query) {
    $query->orderBy('country', 'desc');
}]);

But the problem is that championships do not have country property. In Championship model I use getCountryAttribute function:

public function getCountryAttribute()
{
    return $this->masterChampionship->country;
}

public function masterChampionship()
{
    return $this->belongsTo('App\MasterChampionship');
}

And I get next results:

SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'country' in 'order clause' (SQL: select * from `championships` where `championships`.`season_id` in (41) order by `country` desc)

If i don't use load in controller and access championships from blade template

@foreach($season->championships->sortBy('country') as $championship)
    ....
@endforeach

everything works fine. But I want to cleanup template and move logic to controller. Is there any possibility to solve my case using built-in laravel features, without building custom BD query.

Jeff Jeff · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-18T00:20:05

Youll have to change the table names, as I don't know what they are, but I think this would work:

$season->load(['championships' => function($query){

    $query->select('championships.*')
        ->join('master_championships', 'championships.master_championships_id', '=', 'master_championships.id')
        ->orderBy('master_championships.country', 'desc');

}]);

I don't think you can order the query without using a join, seeing as you have to access the third table to get the country attribute. You may save a bunch of queries from hitting the database if you do

$season->load(['championships','championships.masterChampionships']);

laravel Lazy Eager Loading with orderBy related model

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