Access inner join data from sequelize using include - node.js

Question

I am trying to join two tables using Sequelize's include as such:
models.user.findAll({include: {model: models.boardMember, required:true}})
.then(function(board) {
console.log(board);
res.render('contact', { title: 'Kontakt', board: board });
});
My models look like this using the sequelize express example:
User (it doesn't quite feel right having the hasMany here instead of in boardMembers, but I didn't want to have the foreign key field in the users table)
module.exports = function(sequelize, DataTypes) {
var user = sequelize.define('user', {
//lots of normal user fields(username, password, access...
}, {
classMethods: {
associate: function(models) {
user.hasMany(models.boardMember, {
foreignKey: {
allowNull: false
}
});
}
}
});
return user;
};
boardMember
module.exports = function(sequelize, DataTypes) {
var boardMember = sequelize.define('boardMember', {
post: {
type: DataTypes.STRING,
unique: false,
allowNull: false
}
});
return boardMember;
};
I then want to access the data returned in a table using handlebars:
{{#each board}}
<tr>
<td>{{boardMembers.post}}</td>
<td>{{firstName}} {{surName}}</td>
<td>{{email}}</td>
</tr>
{{/each}}
Here is where I get it wrong(I think). The names and email appear, but not the post. I've tried using only post as well but to no avail. This is odd I think because the query that is generated looks like this (I removed the createdAt and updatedAt columns to make it shorter for you to read):
SELECT
`user`.`id`, `user`.`username`, `user`.`password`,
`user`.`firstName`, `user`.`surName`, `user`.`email`, `user`.`access`,
`boardMembers`.`id` AS `boardMembers.id`, `boardMembers`.`post` AS `boardMembers.post`,
`boardMembers`.`userId` AS `boardMembers.userId`
FROM
`users` AS `user`
INNER JOIN
`boardMembers` AS `boardMembers` ON `user`.`id` = `boardMembers`.`userId`;
The console.log outputs something like this(the data obviously changed):
[ Instance {
dataValues:
{ id: 2,
username: 'username',
password: 'hashedPassword',
firstName: 'User',
surName: 'Name',
email: 'user#name.com',
access: '0',
boardMembers: [Object] },
...
]
Any help is much appreciated!
Thanks,
Freece

Answer 1

Per the sequelize documentation the value for the include attribute is a list.
You can try with the special value include: [{ all: true, nested: true }] and see if it works for you.
Additionally you have a problem with your template becuase you have stablished a one to many relation and therefore the boardMemebers attribute of model instances are arrays.