From 3d06daf133908fa509389ca96628a6fae002219f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Nil=20Portugu=C3=A9s=20Calder=C3=B3?= <nilopc@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 20:34:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Eloquent Models & Collection 100% compatible now!

---
 .../JsonApiSerializer/JsonApiSerializer.php   | 29 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/NilPortugues/Laravel5/JsonApiSerializer/JsonApiSerializer.php b/src/NilPortugues/Laravel5/JsonApiSerializer/JsonApiSerializer.php
index a802eaf..e023825 100644
--- a/src/NilPortugues/Laravel5/JsonApiSerializer/JsonApiSerializer.php
+++ b/src/NilPortugues/Laravel5/JsonApiSerializer/JsonApiSerializer.php
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
  */
 namespace NilPortugues\Laravel5\JsonApiSerializer;
 
+use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
 use NilPortugues\Api\JsonApi\JsonApiTransformer;
 use NilPortugues\Serializer\DeepCopySerializer;
 
@@ -25,4 +26,32 @@ public function __construct(JsonApiTransformer $strategy)
     {
         parent::__construct($strategy);
     }
+    
+
+    /**
+     * Extract the data from an object.
+     *
+     * @param mixed $value
+     *
+     * @return array
+     */
+    protected function serializeObject($value)
+    {
+        if ($value instanceof \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection) {
+            $items = [];
+            foreach ($value->all() as &$v) {
+                $items[] = $this->serializeObject($v);
+            }
+            return [self::MAP_TYPE => 'array', self::SCALAR_VALUE => $items];
+        }
+
+        if (is_subclass_of($value, Model::class, true)) {
+            $stdClass = (object) $value->getAttributes();
+            $data =  $this->serializeData($stdClass);
+            $data[self::CLASS_IDENTIFIER_KEY] = get_class($value);
+            return $data;
+        }
+
+        return parent::serializeObject($value);
+    }    
 }