Hi :slightly_smiling_face: I am having a difficult...

# exposed

[Yoavya]

Hi 🙂
I am having a difficulty with the join mechanism: apparently if you hold a reference to a table and you join them

object UserQuestionTable : LongIdTable("user_question") {
    val uid = reference("uid", UserTable, onDelete = ReferenceOption.CASCADE)
    val oid = optReference("oid", OtherTable)
    val allow = bool("allow").default(true)
}

but you have a complex join that is not just the reference ids equal

UserQuestionTable.join(OtherTable, JoinType.LEFT, additionalConstraint = {
(OtherTable.id inList otherIds) and (
                (OtherTable.id eq UserQuestionTable.oid) or (
                    UserQuestionTable.oid.isNull() and (UserQuestionTable.allow eq true)
                    )
                )
        })

but the output query is added a user_question.oid = other.id and then the rest of the additional constraint query
what can I do to remove this addition?

[tapac]

Please try to specify that you don't need to use implicit reference by using extended join version:

UserQuestionTable.join(OtherTable, JoinType.LEFT, onColumn = null, otherColumn = null, additionalConstraint = { /* your condition */ })

[Yoavya]

tried that, it still adds a condition user_question.oid = other.id AND (my condition)
as a hack solution I removed the reference in the exposed table (code only). using just a long type for now

[Yoavya]

should I open an issue in github?

[tapac]

Oh, I found a bug. Will fix it now.

[Yoavya]

YES, awesome, thanks