Laravel Policy return false ID's are the same

Question

I have created policy (RelationPolicy), and add method view:

public function view(User $user, Relation $relation)
    {
        return $user->id === $relation->user_id;

    }

And then I have tried to use it with controller helper:

$relation = Relation::where('name', '=', $name)->first();
$this->authorize('view', $relation);

But it always give me "FALSE".

When I add dd($user->id) and dd($relation->user_id) add in the policy I get those id's:

dd($user->id): 1 dd($relation->user_id): "1"

How to solve this?

user_13530201 · Answer

Try this

public function view(User $user, Relation $relation)
    {
        return $user->id == $relation->user_id;

    }

or

public function view(User $user, Relation $relation)
    {
        return $user->id === (int)$relation->user_id;

    }