From f8db60430d4b811f8ab771d25ec23b1c70edd302 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Taylor Otwell <taylor@laravel.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:37:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] collect is optional

---
 .../Http/Resources/CollectsResources.php      |  6 +++---
 .../Resources/UnknownCollectionException.php  | 21 -------------------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 src/Illuminate/Http/Resources/UnknownCollectionException.php

diff --git a/src/Illuminate/Http/Resources/CollectsResources.php b/src/Illuminate/Http/Resources/CollectsResources.php
index a394948b0772..6078e5f8f1ca 100644
--- a/src/Illuminate/Http/Resources/CollectsResources.php
+++ b/src/Illuminate/Http/Resources/CollectsResources.php
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ trait CollectsResources
      */
     protected function collectResource($resource)
     {
-        $this->collection = $resource->mapInto($this->collects());
+        $this->collection = ($collects = $this->collects())
+                    ? $resource->mapInto($collects)
+                    : $resource->toBase();
 
         return $resource instanceof AbstractPaginator
                     ? $resource->setCollection($this->collection)
@@ -38,8 +40,6 @@ protected function collects()
             class_exists($class = Str::replaceLast('Collection', '', get_class($this)))) {
             return $class;
         }
-
-        throw new UnknownCollectionException($this);
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/Illuminate/Http/Resources/UnknownCollectionException.php b/src/Illuminate/Http/Resources/UnknownCollectionException.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 126146a59a90..000000000000
--- a/src/Illuminate/Http/Resources/UnknownCollectionException.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-namespace Illuminate\Http\Resources;
-
-use Exception;
-
-class UnknownCollectionException extends Exception
-{
-    /**
-     * Create a new exception instance.
-     *
-     * @param  mixed  $resource
-     * @return void
-     */
-    public function __construct($resource)
-    {
-        parent::__construct(
-            'The ['.get_class($resource).'] resource must specify the models it collects.'
-        );
-    }
-}