DataMapper ORM v1.8.2

[eluser]WanWizard[/eluser]
[quote author="darkylmnx" date="1360620735"]Hi, i was wondering if there was any kind of eager loading in DataMapper ? i didn't find anything about it and i tried "include_related" but without success.
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If you mean by that populating related objects from a single query, then the answer is no.

Datamapper has been around from PHP4 days, times when instantiating objects was every expensive.

So it was decided to use include_related() and return the flattened result in a single object, instead of hydrating the result and creating all the related objects, which potentionally can make Datamapper very slow (depending on the number of joins and the number of records returned.

It's been on my todo list for quite some time, but as I haven't used CI in years, I don't really get around to new functionality anymore.

auto_populate does lazy loading, which is not the question.

Using TRUE as fourth parameter on include_related() should work, but not on all relation types. What was the result of your foreach?