How do you check relationship with other user before sending a friend request?

[patterueldev]

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I can't find a method that will check if there's "an existing record" on the friend request table (I'd have to use Eloquent manually), but there could be a method created to check this right? I mean,

What if the other user is already: Added? Pending Request? Blocked?

Is there a single method to check this?

[ronssij]

$user->isFriendWith($friend); $user->hasFriendRequestFrom($sender); $user->hasSentFriendRequestTo($recipient); $user->hasBlocked($friend);

What about this? It's on their docs