Elegant way to handle options for select menus/dropdowns?

[timmaier]

Whats a elegant way to handle select options for dropdowns/select menus?

Since I'm trying to use my EmployeeData for both request and response.

Lets say my EmployeeData has a service property that is a Lazy relation of ServiceData.

ServiceData is a large data class with co relations etc so I don't want to send the whole ServiceData itself as the select option. So on create form I map all available services (ServiceData) into a serviceOptions (OptionData) which is just id, label, value and an optional group.

The issue is when I now submit the form request to create an employee it's still triggering required validation. Even though the service key/value is not sent in the request.

I've had a look through the docs and tried finding other discussions for this. Feel like this is a pretty common use case so maybe I'm just being silly.

 class EmployeeData extends Data
     public function __construct(
         public Lazy|ServiceData $service,
         public OptionData|Optional $serviceOption,
     )