[7.x] Support returning an instance of a caster #32225
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See #32215 (comment)
With the addition of the
Castable
interface (laravel/docs#5934), it makes sense to allow direct instantiation from within aCastable::castUsing
implementation. A common usecase could be something like this:Which allows a kind of "generic" cast. All classes extending
EloquentDataTransferObject
can now directly be used as a cast type, and will be casted to the correct implementation ofEloquentDataTransferObject
.Eg.