[Adonis v5] How to iterate trough related?

[melokki]

Hello again 👋 🙃

I am now in a Lucid model and I am making a computed property. For this I need to iterate over a relationship

// this code successfully loads my relationship, but I cannot iterate over the array
const payments = this.$getRelated("payments");

this is the error I am getting

Property 'forEach' does not exist on type 'OneOrMany<LucidRow>'.
  Property 'forEach' does not exist on type 'LucidRow'.

I tried to use other array methods too, but I got the same error

Am I doing something wrong or this is just not possible?

[thetutlage]

Why not simply use this.payments?

[melokki]

Thank you for your reply, yup, that's what I ended up using
I was thinking that if I use $getRelated() it will auto preload the relationship for me (is that even possible? 🤔 )

[thetutlage]

Nope. Preloading has to be an explicit function call. No implicit magic is done in AdonisJS codebase 🙂

[melokki]

🙃 Understood
thank you very much