improve increment to reflect atomic operations and also avoid float memory storing issues caused by simple addition or subtraction in laravel incrementOrDecrement model function

Author: Marius

src/Models/BaseModel.php

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ abstract class BaseModel extends Model
     protected $hidden = [
         'laravel_through_key'
     ];
+    private array $incrementsToRefresh = [];
 
     /**
      * @inheritdoc
@@ -280,4 +281,40 @@ protected function setKeysForSaveQuery($query)
     {
         return $query->where($this->getPrimaryKeyFilter());
     }
+
+    /**
+     * @inheritDoc
+     */
+    public function getAttribute($key)
+    {
+        if ($this->exists && isset($this->incrementsToRefresh[$key])) {
+            $this->attributes = \array_merge(
+                $this->attributes,
+                (array)($this->setKeysForSelectQuery($this->newQueryWithoutScopes())
+                    ->useWritePdo()
+                    ->select(\array_keys($this->incrementsToRefresh))
+                    ->first()
+                    ?->toArray())
+            );
+            $this->incrementsToRefresh = [];
+        }
+
+        return parent::getAttribute($key);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This will mass update the whole table if the model does not exist!
+     * @inheritDoc
+     * @throws \InvalidArgumentException
+     */
+    protected function incrementOrDecrement($column, $amount, $extra, $method): int
+    {
+        $return = parent::incrementOrDecrement($column, $amount, $extra, $method);
+
+        if ($this->exists) {
+            $this->incrementsToRefresh[$column] = true;
+        }
+
+        return $return;
+    }
 }