Deep relation when querying

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It is possible to pass a deep relation when querying? For example, I have a User, a User can have many cars and a Car has one Make. When I query the User I want to get his cars and each Car’s Make. I don’t want to use Eager or Lazy loading. I’m thinking something like:

$users = User.find({relations : ['cars.make']})

If no, are there any plans for implementing it in the near future? As an example, I saw this behavior in the PHP Laravel Framework

Thank you!

[IonelLupu]

I was referring to the fact that I have to explicitly write every relation like so:

$users = User.find({relations : ['cars','cars.make']})

But it would be nice to write it only once like so:

$users = User.find({relations : ['cars.make']})

It’s kinda redundant to write car twice. If I want to remove the cars relation I have to remove any other relation linked with the car too.

For example, this is my current code:

User.find({relations: ['client', 'client.cars', 'client.cars.version', 'client.cars.version.model', 'client.cars.version.model.make']});

A better version could be like so:

User.find({relations: ['client.cars.version.model.make']});

[pleerock]

yes its supported as documentation says, did you try it?