Multiple relations

Let's say I have this relationship from message to users:

export const MessageRelations = relations(MessageTable, ({ one }) => ({
  sender: one(UserTable, {
    fields: [MessageTable.sender_id],
    references: [UserTable.id],
  }),

  recipient: one(UserTable, {
    fields: [MessageTable.recipient_id],
    references: [UserTable.id],
  }),
}))

export const MessageRelations = relations(MessageTable, ({ one }) => ({
  sender: one(UserTable, {
    fields: [MessageTable.sender_id],
    references: [UserTable.id],
  }),

  recipient: one(UserTable, {
    fields: [MessageTable.recipient_id],
    references: [UserTable.id],
  }),
}))

And I'd like to add a relation from user to messages, by the sender. I thought of doing this:

export const UserRelations = relations(UserTable, ({ many }) => ({
  messages: many(MessageTable),
}))

export const UserRelations = relations(UserTable, ({ many }) => ({
  messages: many(MessageTable),
}))

But it errors out, Error: There is not enough information to infer relation "UserTable.messages" I assume I need to tell it what relation messages is linked with, but how do I go about doing that? The docs provide no information about this.

6 Replies

Piotrek•17mo ago

You have to name the relations

export const MessageRelations = relations(MessageTable, ({ one }) => ({
  sender: one(UserTable, {
    fields: [MessageTable.sender_id],
    references: [UserTable.id],
    relationName: "sentMessages"
  }),

  recipient: one(UserTable, {
    fields: [MessageTable.recipient_id],
    references: [UserTable.id],
    relationName: "receivedMessages"
  }),
}))

export const UserRelations = relations(UserTable, ({ many }) => ({
  sentMessages: many(MessageTable, { relationName: "sentMessages" }),
  receivedMessages: many(MessageTable, { relationName: "receivedMessages" }),
}))

export const MessageRelations = relations(MessageTable, ({ one }) => ({
  sender: one(UserTable, {
    fields: [MessageTable.sender_id],
    references: [UserTable.id],
    relationName: "sentMessages"
  }),

  recipient: one(UserTable, {
    fields: [MessageTable.recipient_id],
    references: [UserTable.id],
    relationName: "receivedMessages"
  }),
}))

export const UserRelations = relations(UserTable, ({ many }) => ({
  sentMessages: many(MessageTable, { relationName: "sentMessages" }),
  receivedMessages: many(MessageTable, { relationName: "receivedMessages" }),
}))

@yuval59 btw. Drizzle has a very good typescript DX, you can always check if there are some fields you're missing by looking at autocompletion 😉 that's how i learned about them haha

Asseater PeterOP•17mo ago

I see, I did look at the autocomplete for the many() thing but I didn't think of doing it to the one() config, my bad I do think this stuff should probably be better explained in the docs tho, seems like a pretty obvious thing to need ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Piotrek•17mo ago

yeah they should write about them in the docs i also struggled with configuring those relations but i had multiple many-to-many ones

Asseater PeterOP•17mo ago

mmmmm that sounds like fun Like, if you had multiple one-to-one relations this wouldn't be a problem (Because of the fields + references thing)

Piotrek•17mo ago

yeah, i had to use the relationName in 3 places and debug where it should be lol

Asseater PeterOP•17mo ago

Anyways, thank you very much for the help! It works, so I'm gonna close the thread

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