Relation not loaded

[gjm]

Let's say I have two models, Employee and Company and Employee belongsTo Company.

I want to have a simple datatable listing employees and respective companies. The column definition would be something like:

public function columns(): array
{
    return [
        Column::make('Number')->searchable()->sortable(),
        Column::make('Name')->searchable()->sortable(),
        Column::make('Company', 'company.name')->searchable()->sortable(),
    ]
}

Relations are being eager loaded and everything works fine like this.

But, say I want to display the company's description, through the getDescription() method. If I chain format(fn ($value, $row) => $row->getDescription()) to format the column's value I get an error saying I'm calling getDescription() on null.

I would expect, since the company name is being shown correctly and search and sorting also work fine, that the company relation of each employee would be correctly loaded and set but it is not.

Am I doing something wrong?

[DanielGSoftware]

What does your query look like?

[gjm]

I reported an issue (#872) and there is more info there.

Thanks for your answer.