I have a User and a Role model extending Catalyst's Sentinel package.
Everything works fine if I use the default incrementing primary key. When I change it to use UUIDs it acts weird. Everything works fine except for a little detail.
Here's the code snippet to check whether the User belongs to a Role or not:
public function inRole($role)
{
if ($role instanceof RoleInterface) {
$roleId = $role->getRoleId();
}
foreach ($this->roles as $instance) {
if ($role instanceof RoleInterface) {
if ($instance->getRoleId() === $roleId) {
return true;
}
} else {
if ($instance->getRoleId() == $role || $instance->getRoleSlug() == $role) {
return true;
}
}
}
return false;
}
What that code does is: if I pass an instance of Role it loops through all the user's roles and check whether any of them match the provided $role's id.
Here's the $user->roles ($this->roles) relationship:
public function roles()
{
return $this->belongsToMany(static::$rolesModel, 'role_users', 'user_id', 'role_id')->withTimestamps();
}
The $role->getRoleId() correctly returns the UUID: "8fbc99e2-3cbb-4e98-b0e3-4c88027d787f"
But the $instance->getRoleId() returns 8, or whatever the first numeric character of the UUID is. If the first character is a letter then it returns 0.
I have confirmed that $instance is indeed an instance of RoleInterface so I think it should behave exactly the same as $role.
I have also added public $incrementing = false to both models.
I have made several checkpoints across all the vendor functions that are called and I can't figure out why this is happening.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
I have opened a new issue on their GitHub repository so here's the link to keep the answers in sync: github.com/cartalyst/sentinel/issues/289 (sorry, I can't post more than 2 links)