HasMany using Pivot?

[NiekNijland]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to make a relation between my 2 MongoDB models. But instead of using the default way of pushing ID's to an array I want to use a Pivot Collection.

I could do this in the following way:

final class Project extends Model
{
    public function projectEmployeePivots(): HasMany
    {
        return $this->hasMany(ProjectEmployeePivot::class);
    }

    public function employees(): Collection
    {
        return $this->projectEmployeePivots()
            ->with('employee')
            ->get()
            ->pluck('employee');
    }
}

But I would prefer to return a Relation instead of a Collection, so I can query more efficiently on the relation, without fetching all of the Related Employees.

Here is what I have so far, but this is not working because I'm calling ->employees() on a Builder instance.

final class Project extends Model
{
    public function employees(): hasMany
    {
        $relation = $this->hasMany(Employee::class);

        $relation->setQuery(
            ProjectEmployeePivot::with('employee')->employees()->getQuery()
        );

        return $relation;
    }
}

So I'm a bit lost now how I should try to setup this relation, so I'm asking here. Thanks in advance!