Error: Cannot get entity metadata for the given alias

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Steps to reproduce or a small repository showing the problem: Hi. I’m having an issue with retrieving documents from a nested FROM-clause like this:

let query = getConnection().createQueryBuilder()
            .from((qb) => {
                    return qb
                        .from(A, "a")
                        .limit(1);
                }
                , "alias")

And get the error Cannot get entity metadata for the given alias "alias". Also, if I try to add another from:

.from(A, "b")

the query works, but the second FROM doesn’t replace the first one, as specified in the docs. How can I do this the right way? Thanks

[volovodenko]

Works only with getRawMany()

[goobet]

Try this hack:

  query.expressionMap.mainAlias.metadata = query.connection.getMetadata(YourEntity)

Hope it will help someone