Laravel The Response content must be a string or object implementing __toString(), "object" given
When you do
return \App\User::first()->skills();you are returning the Relation definition object, which doesn't implement __toString() method. What you need in order to return the related object is
return \App\User::first()->skills;This will return a Collection object cotaining related skills - this will be properly serialized.
in the Route.php, return a collection like so
Route::get('setting',function(){ return \App\User::first()->skills;});OR
Route::get('setting',function(){ $skills = \App\User::first(['id','skills']); return $skills->skills;});And on you User.php model, you can factor your code say so
protected $casts = [ 'skills' => 'json'];public function skills(){ return $this->skills;}I hope this helps someone.