Querying a joined table doesn't work if the table name and model name differ

[jaroslav-muller]

This query should work but it throws an error:
models.collections.action.find({'actionType': {name: '1'}})

Error is:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'attributes' of undefined
    at CriteriaProcessor.processSimple (/home/jarin/tmp/test/node_modules/sails-postgresql/node_modules/waterline-sequel/sequel/lib/criteriaProcessor.js:431:45)
    at CriteriaProcessor.process (/home/jarin/tmp/test/node_modules/sails-postgresql/node_modules/waterline-sequel/sequel/lib/criteriaProcessor.js:583:17)
    at CriteriaProcessor.and (/home/jarin/tmp/test/node_modules/sails-postgresql/node_modules/waterline-sequel/sequel/lib/criteriaProcessor.js:264:8)
    at CriteriaProcessor.expand (/home/jarin/tmp/test/node_modules/sails-postgresql/node_modules/waterline-sequel/sequel/lib/criteriaProcessor.js:163:12)
    at /home/jarin/tmp/test/node_modules/sails-postgresql/node_modules/waterline-sequel/sequel/lib/criteriaProcessor.js:520:14
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at expandCriteria (/home/jarin/tmp/test/node_modules/sails-postgresql/node_modules/waterline-sequel/sequel/lib/criteriaProcessor.js:517:17)
    at CriteriaProcessor.processObject (/home/jarin/tmp/test/node_modules/sails-postgresql/node_modules/waterline-sequel/sequel/lib/criteriaProcessor.js:506:3)
    at CriteriaProcessor.process (/home/jarin/tmp/test/node_modules/sails-postgresql/node_modules/waterline-sequel/sequel/lib/criteriaProcessor.js:583:17)
    at CriteriaProcessor.and (/home/jarin/tmp/test/node_modules/sails-postgresql/node_modules/waterline-sequel/sequel/lib/criteriaProcessor.js:264:8)
    at CriteriaProcessor.expand (/home/jarin/tmp/test/node_modules/sails-postgresql/node_modules/waterline-sequel/sequel/lib/criteriaProcessor.js:163:12)
    at /home/jarin/tmp/test/node_modules/sails-postgresql/node_modules/waterline-sequel/sequel/lib/criteriaProcessor.js:104:12
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at CriteriaProcessor.read (/home/jarin/tmp/test/node_modules/sails-postgresql/node_modules/waterline-sequel/sequel/lib/criteriaProcessor.js:103:22)
    at WhereBuilder.single (/home/jarin/tmp/test/node_modules/sails-postgresql/node_modules/waterline-sequel/sequel/where.js:153:40)
    at simpleWhere (/home/jarin/tmp/test/node_modules/sails-postgresql/node_modules/waterline-sequel/sequel/index.js:300:16)

The source of the error seems to be that at line currentSchema = this.schema[tableName].attributes waterline uses table name 'actionType' (model name) where it should use 'action_type' (table name).

If you use the same string for table name and model name such a query works OK.

Also a simpler queries, which are not joining the action_type table work OK:

models.collections.action.find({'actionType': '1'})
...
models.collections.actiontype.find({'name': '1'})

Following is a complete script that reproduces the behaviour:

'use strict';

var adapter = require('sails-postgresql');
var Waterline = require('waterline');

var config = {
  adapters: {
    'sails-postgresql': adapter
  },
  connections: {
    postgres: {
      adapter: 'sails-postgresql',
      host: 'localhost',
      user: 'frontend',
      password: '',
      database: 'frontend'
    }
  },
  defaults: {
    globals: {
      adapters: true,
      models: true
    },
    migrate: 'safe'
  }
};

var models = {};

var waterline = new Waterline();
waterline.loadCollection(Waterline.Collection.extend({
  identity: 'Action',
  tableName: 'action',
  connection: 'postgres',

  schema: true,

  attributes: {
    on: {
      type: "string",
      required: true
    },
    lastChecked: {
      type: "datetime",
      columnName: "last_checked",
      defaultsTo: null
    },
    period: {
      type: "integer"
    },
    actionType: {
      columnName: "action_type",
      model: "ActionType",
      required: true
    }
  }
}));

waterline.loadCollection(Waterline.Collection.extend({
  identity: 'ActionType',
  tableName: 'action_type',
  connection: 'postgres',

  schema: true,

  attributes: {
    name: {
      type: "string"
    },
    shortName: {
      type: "string",
      columnName: "short_name"
    }
  },
  validationMessages: {}
}));

waterline.initialize(config, function(error, models) {
  if (error) {
    throw error;
  }

  models.collections.action.find({
    'actionType': {
      name: '1'
    }
  })
    .populate('actionType')
    .exec(console.log);
});

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Thanks so much for your help!

[jaroslav-muller]

This is still reproducible and it definitely feels like a bug.
Please, don't close it unless you either fix it or convince me it's not a bug.

[particlebanana]

@jaroslav-muller We don't support deep querying like this. In this case you would need to switch the query around and search the actionType and populate the action.