No High Order Messages on Collections?

[G.]

As usual, I might be missing something here so please advise me if I'm wrong.

I'm trying to generate a PHP file with Jigsaw (for serving random writings).

I have a part of the following (ugly) code that fills an array with the URLs of my writings:

$writings->each(function ($writing) {
    echo "\r\n    '{$writing->getUrl()}',";
});

this generates:

    '/writings/3',
    '/writings/again',

I'm expected to get the same as above by using high order message like this:

echo "\r\n    '{$writings->each->getUrl()}',";

but instead the output is this:

'{"3":{"production":false,"baseUrl":"","collections":{"writings":{"extends":"_layouts.master","section":"body"}},"section":"body","extends":"_layouts.master","title":3,"kind":"article","type":"conscious","created_at":"2016-11-18 01:01","_meta":{"filename":"3","baseUrl":"","extension":"md","collection":"writings","collectionName":"writings","source":"\/Users\/guill\/Development\/sleeplessmind.info\/source\/_writings","path":["\/writings\/3"],"url":["\/writings\/3"],"previousItem":null,"nextItem":"again"}},"again":{"production":false,"baseUrl":"","collections":{"writings":{"extends":"_layouts.master","section":"body"}},"section":"body","extends":"_layouts.master","title":"Again","kind":"article","type":"unconscious","created_at":"2017-05-20 03:26","_meta":{"filename":"again","baseUrl":"","extension":"md","collection":"writings","collectionName":"writings","source":"\/Users\/guill\/Development\/sleeplessmind.info\/source\/_writings","path":["\/writings\/again"],"url":["\/writings\/again"],"previousItem":"3","nextItem":null}}}',

The each doesn't seem to loop over each writing, and rather than getting the result of getUrl() for each writing it seems that I'm getting the Collection object.

It's not a big issue as I can get the ouput I need. But I'm just curious about where I might be making a mistake. I like clean code :))

Thanks!

[Matt Stauffer]

@godbout My guess is that this isn't about collect but instead that you put that each in a context where you expect it to echo but instead you sent the collection object itself to the view.

Can you spin up a plain PHP project, include collect, and reproduce this issue?

[G.]

Hey @mattstauffer, thanks for the quick answer. I'm realizing that I've probably posted this issue in the wrong repo, posting it in tightenco/jigsaw might have been better instead. What I thought was that maybe, like you said, Jigsaw was actually not handling or sending the collection correctly? (Which I doubt, it's probably me who is not using it correctly.)

I'll try a plain PHP project and will let you know. If it's fine then I'll write something in Jigsaw.

[G.]

Ok I've tried with plain PHP and I've had the same issue. But it's on me. I realize now that it doesn't make sense to call echo on the result of each, I misunderstood how collect works. If I add a method that actually does the echo and calls it from the each then it works fine. Thanks for the help!