User reference

[kallepyorala]

User reference

[tbarbugli]

Good question.

You can customize how each field is populated when the activity is created. Note: the code snippets here are not tested but should give you a good idea of the general idea ;)

// here more code about the model class using the Activity trait ...

     public function userRef()
    {
        return "SU:${userId}";
    }

    public function activityActorMethodName()
    {
        return 'userRef';
    }

// ...

The same thing can be achieved in a cleaner way by using the PHP client:

$client->users()->createReference("john-doe");

You can retrieve the PHP client using the FeedManager facade:

FeedManager::getClient

[kallepyorala]

I think I tested that and got an exception because method declared in activityActorMethodName() should return instance of Eloquent relation, but I will test again.

[tbarbugli]

That is indeed very possible; an alternative approach is to implement activityActor for your model class. (and return the user ref as string)

[kallepyorala]

That does the job, I didn't think at all to overwrite that one, thanks @tbarbugli