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Bruno
Bruno

Reputation: 31

Cannot query across many-to-many for property (NestJS / TypeORM)

I'm struggling with queries over many-to-many relation using typeorm. I have two entities: users and groups, both having many-to-many relations to each other. User entity has this:

  @ManyToMany(() => Group, group => group.users)
  @JoinTable()
  groups: Group[];

Group entity has this:

  @ManyToMany(() => User, user => user.groups)
  users: User[];

I want to get all groups of a specified user, that have a certain value. In my case, I want all groups for user X that have ishidden = false. So I tried diffentent things, but none work...

  const groups = this.groupRepository.find({
      relations: ['users'],
      where: {
        ishidden: false,
        users: {
          id: user.id
        }
      }
    });

I was really hoping that it would work this way, but it just throws Cannot query across many-to-many for property users. Other approaches with querybuilder also didnt work :-(

I can't be that hard the query a related table, can it? I'm coming from the C# world, so maybe I'm just doing it wrong ;-)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 9599

Answers (1)

Maksim
Maksim

Reputation: 31

Recently faced a similar problem(nestjs + ts + typeorm). Try something like this:

import { Connection } from 'typeorm';

// some code
constructor(private connection: Connection) {}
// some code

await this.connection
  .getRepository(Group) // group entity
  .createQueryBuilder('groups') // table name
  .leftJoin('groups.users', 'users') // join group table and user table
  .where('ishidden = false AND users.id = :userId ', {
    userId: userId,
  })
  .getMany();

Upvotes: 3

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