Unexpected data found during save on eloquent / Laravel

Question

I have one more field on the database over the created_at and updated_at as TIMESTAMP the field name is date.

So i overwritten the method getDates() on my model eloquent because i wanted that field be instantiated from Carbon.

public function getDates()
{
   return ['date','created_at','updated_at'];
}

But when i go to create a new record on the database it throw me an exception:

InvalidArgumentException Unexpected data found. Unexpected data found. Unexpected data found.

Ps: the value sent from the form is in EU format: d-m-Y h:i

I don't know how figure out this problem any suggestion are appreciated

Answer 1

You array returned from getDates was merged with the dafault one resulting in:

['created_at','updated_at','deleted_at','date','created_at','updated_at'];

so use only 'date' there and should be fine.

---

Try setting up a mutator for 'date' to convert the data from input into timestamp format. The error you get is not on Eloquent but Carbon.

public function setDateAttribute($value)
{
    $this->attributes['date'] = Carbon\Carbon::createFromFormat('d-m-Y h:i', $value);
}

Also there is mistake in the docs, as getDates defines date accessors, not mutators..

Answer 2

Try this:

Carbon::createFromFormat('d.m.Y H:i', $request->publishdate);    

Answer 3

You can't use your format "d-m-Y h:i"

You must use one of those: UNIX timestamp, date string (Y-m-d), date-time string, DateTime / Carbon instance

https://laravel.com/docs/4.2/eloquent#accessors-and-mutators

Answer 4

Even though its a year old issue and I'm placing my input for anyone still struggling even after setting the mutator.

If the html input date element passes the date in atom format(1975-12-25T14:15:16-05:00) then the date mutator won't help. You need to apply the following fix in Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model class at line#2848 to get it work (in laravel#5).

$value = Carbon::createFromFormat($format, (new DateTime($value))->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'));