I use laravel and prefer to build the data myself (with eloquent Models) rather than retrieve the query and ask the report to build it.

I am confused about dataSource/dataSources/dataStore property/method. How can I add the Array to the report class in the setup method. I expect something similar to:

  function setup()
  {
    $data = Device::where('customer','1')->get()->toArray();
    $this->dataSources('billable', $data); 
//or maybe
    $this->dataStore('billable')->pipe($data);
  }

I have seen the following in a report.view.php sample, but would like to pass the $data to the report.view.php from the class, not write it directly in the view:

$data = array(
  array("category"=>"Books","sale"=>32000,"cost"=>20000,"profit"=>12000),
);
Table::create(array(
  "dataSource"=>$data
));

Thx

I found the answer with this forum post: How to use ArrayDataSource?