DataMapper ORM v1.8.0

[eluser]WanWizard[/eluser]
That is not possible as the result of the query is "included", not distributed back to 'posts' objects.

It is on the roadmap for 2.0, but that will still have the include methods, as instantiating all these new objects is very memory and time intensive (on my development machine it takes about 20ms to instantiate a new object, you don't want to do that with a 1000 row result...).

2.0 works "just in time", i.e. it keeps the data internally in an optimal structure, and will only instantiate an object when one is requested.