Return flat object from sequelize with association

Question

I am working on converting all my queries in sequelize. The problem I have come across is that when select queries include associations (ex. one to many), the object I get

Answer 1

Part of your issue is probably that your result is an array of model instances, so you might be having issues flattening it if you didn't call toJSON on the elements in the array. I provided code that would flatten your example:

result.forEach(obj => { 
    Object.keys(obj.toJSON()).forEach(k => {
        if (typeof obj[k] === 'object') {       
            Object.keys(obj[k]).forEach(j => obj[j] = obj[k][j]);
        }
    });
});

You can also add raw: true as an option to findAll, which will flatten your object, but it will look like this:

[   
  {
    "field1": "someval",
    "field2": "someval1",
    "assoc_table.field_a": 1,
    "assoc_table.field_b": "someval"
  },
  ...
]