Images disappear on update Repeater fields

[tonnyorg]

• Laravel Version: v11.8.0
• Nova Version: 4.34.2
• PHP Version: 8.3.7

Description:

When you have an Image field + another one, let's say a Text field) inside a Repeater, the image deletes after performing an update to the other field.

This is how the repeater class looks like:

<?php

namespace App\Nova\Repeater;

use Laravel\Nova\Fields\Boolean;
use Laravel\Nova\Fields\Image;
use Laravel\Nova\Fields\Markdown;
use Laravel\Nova\Fields\MultiSelect;
use Laravel\Nova\Fields\Repeater\Repeatable;
use Laravel\Nova\Fields\Select;
use Laravel\Nova\Fields\Text;
use Laravel\Nova\Http\Requests\NovaRequest;

class ImageAndDescription extends Repeatable
{
    public $confirmRemoval = true;

    public function fields(NovaRequest $request)
    {
        return [
            Boolean::make('Active', 'active'),

            Markdown::make('Content', 'content')
                ->required(),

            Text::make('Image title', 'image_title')
                ->rules('required_with:image_src'),

            Image::make('Image', 'image_src')
                ->maxWidth(100)
                ->rules('nullable')
                // ->disk('s3')
                ->path("/images/products/{$request->slug}"),
        ];
    }
}

The Model:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Product extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;

    protected $table = 'products';
    protected $fillable = [
        'images',
        'name',
    ];
    protected $casts = [
        'created_at' => 'datetime',
        'images' => 'array',
        'updated_at' => 'datetime',
    ];
}

The resource:

<?php

namespace App\Nova;

use App\Nova\Resource;
use Laravel\Nova\Fields\ID;
use Laravel\Nova\Fields\Repeater;
use Laravel\Nova\Fields\Text;
use Laravel\Nova\Http\Requests\NovaRequest;

class Product extends Resource
{
    public static $model = \App\Models\Product::class;
    public static $title = 'name';
    public static $globallySearchable = false;

    public function fields(NovaRequest $request)
    {
        return [
            ID::make()->sortable(),
            Text::make('Name', 'name')
                ->sortable()
                ->filterable()
                ->rules('required', 'min:3', 'max:150'),
            Repeater::make('Images', 'images')
				->repeatables([
					\App\Nova\Repeater\ImageAndDescription::make(),
				])
                ->asJson()
                ->showOnDetail(),
        ];
    }
}

Detailed steps to reproduce the issue on a fresh Nova installation:

1. Create a new Product in Nova without any repeater field on it, click on [create]
2. Go to the latest created Product and add one repeater item (ImageAndDescription) make sure to upload an image and whatever text too click on [update]
3. Go back to edit the same Product, it would have the image there already (inside the repeater), now edit just the text inside the repeater (don't touch the image at all) and click on [update] to save the resource's data.
4. Go back to edit the same Product, now the text is updated (according to the previous step) but the image is gone (the value in the DB has turned into null)