Question: QueryBuilder how to join on id columns and a column with arbitrary value?

Describe the feature as you’d like to see it I have a requirement that a join be done on a foreign key and the value of another column.

example query:

select item_id, item_group, group1_table.name as group1_name, group2_table.name as group2_name, group3_table.name as group3_name
	from items_used
	left join group1_table on item_group='household' and item_id = group1_table.id
	left join group2_table on item_group='garden' and item_id = group2_table.id
	left join group3_table on item_group='garage' and item_id = group3_table.id

	where items_used.user_id = '30745508-bc6f-49fd-a635-18f5d96f5afe'
	group by item_id, item_group, group1_name, group2_name, group3_name
	order by count(item_id);

This will produce rows where only the groupx_name columns are filled when the join for that item is fully realised example results

item_id	item_group	group1_name	group2_name	group3_name
6d7d865f-e4e5-4a23-8804-d5cb41dc0fec	household	Box Cutter
c1793683-ccfe-4cb8-b41d-f9361c737928	garden		spade

In Orator you can do it like this example Its obviously not the same as above query but you get the idea

clause = JoinClause('contacts').on('users.id', '=', 'contacts.user_id').where('contacts.user_id', '>', 5)
db.table('users').join(clause).get()

How do we do this in Masonite Orm? I am tempted to build a raw query but that would become fragile and I would like to know how to do this properly as the join documentation does not have any info for this common usage.

Help and pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks

[josephmancuso]

As in where clauses? Yes. https://github.com/MasoniteFramework/orm/pull/471

[circulon]

@josephmancuso

Nice work! Simple, elegant, and obvious to read.