ADD toNestedArray method

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 
 All notable changes to `laravel-inertia-dataproviders` will be documented in this file.
 
+## v1.3.0 - 2023-06-22
+
+### What's Changed
+
+- Added `toNestedArray` method 
+
 ## v1.2.0 - 2023-02-22
 
 ### What's Changed

README.md

@@ -215,6 +215,24 @@ class DemoController extends Controller
 }
 ```
 
+If you need to return the entire dataset as an array, for instance for use in JSON responses, you can use `toNestedArray()
+
+```php
+use App\Models\Demo;
+use Illuminate\Http\Request;
+use App\DataProviders\TabDataProvider;
+use App\DataProviders\DemoDataProvider;
+use App\DataProviders\CreateVenueDataProvider;
+
+class DemoController extends Controller
+{
+    public function show(Request $request, Demo $demo)
+    {
+        return (new DemoDataProvider($demo))->toNestedArray();
+    }
+}
+```
+
 ## Changelog
 
 Please see [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for more information on what has changed recently.

src/DataProvider.php

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ abstract class DataProvider implements Arrayable
 {
     protected array|Arrayable $staticData = [];
 
-    protected array $excludedMethods = ['__construct', 'toArray', 'dd', 'dump',];
+    protected array $excludedMethods = ['__construct', 'toArray', 'toNestedArray', 'dd', 'dump',];
 
     public static function collection(DataProvider|array ...$dataProviders): DataProviderCollection
     {
@@ -50,11 +50,15 @@ public function toArray(): array
         return collect()->merge($staticData)->merge($convertedProperties)->merge($convertedMethods)->toArray();
     }
 
-    public function dump(): static
+    public function toNestedArray(): array
     {
         $response = new Response('', []);
-        $props = $response->resolvePropertyInstances($this->toArray(), request());
-        VarDumper::dump($props);
+        return $response->resolvePropertyInstances($this->toArray(), request());
+    }
+
+    public function dump(): static
+    {
+        VarDumper::dump($this->toNestedArray());
 
         return $this;
     }