Querying Related Tables on a Model

I have an Ap Model fo aps Table defined as :

var Ap = Bookshelf.Model.extend({
    tableName:'aps',
    idAttribute:'ethernet_mac',
    hasTimestamps: true,
    venue: function() {
        return this.belongsTo(Venue,'venue_name');
    },
    switch: function() {
        return this.belongsTo(Switch,'switch_id');
    },
    wlc: function(){
        return this.belongsTo(Wlc,'wlc_id','id');
    }
});

If I want to query the aps Table, i do the following:

    Ap.query(function(qb){
        qb.where('venue_name','LIKE','AUS%');
    })
    .fetchPage({
        limit:3, 
        offset:0, 
        withRelated: [
        {wlc:function(qb){qb.column('id','name','ip');}},
        'switch'
        ]})
    .then(function (resultCol){
        res.status(200).json({aps:resultCol.toJSON()});
    })
    .catch(function (err){
        console.log("Err",err);
        res.status(500).json({error:err});
    });

The above gives me 3 Ap records with all of their related switch info & only the ‘id’,‘name’,‘ip’ of their related wlc info.

How would I query the relatedTables (wlcs,switchs,venues) in BookShelf to get matching Ap records?

[ricardograca]

I don’t see how dropping down to knex.raw() is an acceptable solution…

Because it’s the only way right now. I agree it sucks, but no one has implemented what you want yet.

Why can’t bookshelf let me do something as simple as…

Because if it was that simple to implement someone would have done it already, so clearly it’s not simple. This has been an issue for a long time and many already reported it, but no one actually did the required work. This will require a very extensive refactor of Bookshelf, which will happen at some point, but for now knex.raw will have to do. The issue here is that these relations are not fetched using JOIN, but using two separate queries. See issue #141 for more info.

For the record, this is a duplicate of #141.

[VanessaRLewis]

Solved this using knex.raw()