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Summary

Relationship queries now constrain and shape the populated child arrays, not just which parents come back.

$posts = $database->find('posts', [
    Query::relationship('comments', [
        Query::equal('approved', [true]),
        Query::orderDesc('$createdAt'),
        Query::limit(25),
        Query::offset(0),
    ]),
]);

Also, a top-level dotted filter such as Query::equal('comments.approved', [true]) now both selects matching parents and prunes the populated comments array to the matching children.

What landed

  1. Query::relationship($relationshipKey, $queries) (TYPE_RELATIONSHIP) with validator, groupByType() bucket, and routing in processRelationshipQueries.
  2. Dotted filters constrain populated children as well as the parent set. convertRelationshipQueries parent-set rewrite is unchanged.
  3. Many-to-many relationship order iterates the ordered child fetch instead of junction insertion order.
  4. Per-parent limit/offset/cursor via in-memory sliceRelated() after grouping. The BFS queue fans out only from survivors, so depth 2/3 work is reduced.

v1 contract

API Relationship queries
find / findOne / iterate applied
count / sum ignored
updateDocuments / deleteDocuments / getDocument rejected
  • Relationship-in-relationship is rejected.
  • Pagination on a singular relationship is rejected.
  • Inner filters/order/select are accepted shallow at the parent; the child find() does deep validation. An invalid inner filter therefore only throws if the parent query actually returns rows to populate.

Review follow-ups in this PR

  • An inner Query::select() now puts the next BFS depth into explicit-select mode, so unselected child relationships are not populated back after attribute projection.
  • TYPE_RELATIONSHIP is skipped in convertQueries and in SQL/Mongo/Memory condition builders, so skipValidation() cannot leak it in as a boolean grouping (AND relationship OR).
  • Mirror::skipValidation() snapshots and restores source/destination validation flags independently, so a skipped nested-skeleton test cannot leave validation off for later Mirror writes.

Known limitations (intentional for v1)

  • Depth-1 fetch is still unbounded (limit(PHP_INT_MAX)); slicing bounds the response and the BFS fan-out, not the first-level scan.
  • Many-to-many relationship order is applied per RELATION_QUERY_CHUNK_SIZE (5000) chunk, not across chunk boundaries.
  • Relationship cursors are a single document applied independently to each parent's array; a cursor id missing from a parent yields an empty child array for that parent.
  • or([relationship(), …]) is rejected by validation. With skipValidation(), relationship queries are ignored rather than executed as SQL.
  • A vector query inside relationship() still counts toward the parent's single-vector limit.

Test plan

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  • phpstan --level 7 src tests
  • phpunit tests/unit (488)
  • Memory / MariaDB / MongoDB --filter on the relationship tests (local Docker unresponsive; covered by CI)
  • CI on this PR (full adapter matrix)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added relationship queries for filtering, selecting, ordering, and paginating related documents.
    • Added per-parent limits, offsets, cursors, and ordering for one-to-many and many-to-many relationships.
    • Added an option to temporarily skip mirror validation during a callback.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved relationship query handling across memory, SQL, MongoDB, and Redis adapters.
    • Nested relationship selections and filters now return the correct related documents.
  • Validation

    • Added validation for relationship attributes, inner queries, pagination, and relationship-specific restrictions.

abnegate and others added 6 commits September 11, 2026 18:32
Populated child arrays can currently only be shaped by a top-level
`select`, so there is no way to express "these queries apply to the
children of this relationship". This adds the carrier for that: a
`nested` query type that holds per-relationship queries, a validator
that accepts it only on a relationship attribute, and the routing that
delivers its inner queries to the relationship populator.

No inner query is honoured yet -- the queries reach the populator and
the related collection's own `find()` validates them, which is what
makes an invalid inner filter surface as an error instead of being
dropped. Applying limit/offset/cursor/order per parent is the next
step.

Three seams had to move for the carrier to be inert everywhere else:

- `populateDocumentsRelationships()` inferred "the caller asked for
  explicit selects" from the selection map being non-empty. A `nested()`
  fills that map with no `select` present, which made the populator drop
  every sibling relationship. The caller now states it.
- `sum()` does not group queries, so a `nested` would reach
  `convertQueries()`, be recursed into as a logical query, and emit a
  broken SQL condition. It is stripped before conversion.
- `updateDocuments()` and `deleteDocuments()` do not populate
  relationships, so they refuse the method rather than silently
  ignoring it.

The inner queries are cloned on the way into the selection map because
`getDocument()` passes the caller's own array through, and the
populator rewrites dotted select values in place.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A top-level dotted filter such as Query::equal('comments.approved', [true])
narrowed the parent set but left every child in the populated array, so a
caller asking for posts with approved comments got those posts back carrying
their unapproved comments too. The parent-set rewrite and the population pass
disagreed about what the query meant.

processRelationshipQueries now mirrors a dotted filter into the nested
selection bucket for its relationship with the first path segment stripped, so
the same predicate reaches the child find that the four populators already
spread their queries into. Depth beyond one level falls out of the existing
breadth-first re-entry: each level strips one more segment.

The original query object is left untouched because convertRelationshipQueries
reads it immediately afterwards to build the parent-set rewrite, and that
rewrite must not change. Dotted children of and/or are deliberately skipped:
an and/or carries no attribute of its own, and lifting one out would constrain
the child array while the parent set still matched every row.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The many-to-many populator already spreads a nested query's inner
queries into the child find(), so the adapter returns the related rows
in the requested order. The per-parent rebuild then discarded that by
walking the junction rows and looking each id up in a map, so a caller
asking for Query::nested('tags', [Query::orderDesc('name')]) still got
junction insertion order.

When an order query is present among the nested queries, build each
parent's array by walking the already-ordered result set and keeping the
ids that parent's junction rows name. With no order query the original
lookup loop runs unchanged, so junction insertion order stays the
documented default.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A nested relationship query's inner limit/offset/cursor were spread into
the batched child fetch alongside the pre-seeded Query::limit(PHP_INT_MAX).
First-wins in groupByType() silently dropped the inner limit, and offset
and cursor - which are not pre-seeded - applied once across the whole
batch, so three parents asking for two children each shared one two-row
window and a cursor from one parent's page truncated everybody else's.

Withhold pagination from the child fetch and slice each parent's grouped
array instead, then return the union of the survivors so the breadth-first
traversal fans out only from children that are actually reachable in the
result. A cursor is resolved inside the parent's own array, so a cursor
that belongs to another parent yields an empty page for this one rather
than an adapter error about a foreign collection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The four nested-query subtasks landed three branches in
processRelationshipQueries() that each re-read $query->getMethod(). Hoist
the method once per iteration so the nested, dotted-filter and select
branches read as one decision, and drop the trailing
`if (getMethod() === TYPE_SELECT)` guard, which is unreachable as false
now that the branch above it continues on anything that is not a select.
The narrating comments in the select body describe what the next line
already says.

Adds testNestedFilterInsideNestedQuery to pin the seam where the two
routing branches meet: Query::nested('comments', [equal('author.name')])
must constrain the populated children without constraining the parent
result set, which is what separates it from the same filter written at
the top level. Verified red with the TYPE_NESTED branch disabled.

No behaviour change in the refactor.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…n depth

An inner Query::select() on a nested relationship left the BFS in
fetch-all mode, so depth-2 population put unselected child relationships
back after applySelectFiltersToDocuments had stripped them.

TYPE_NESTED also sits in LOGICAL_TYPES, so skipValidation could leak it
into convertQueries and adapter condition builders as a boolean grouping.
Skip it in those paths instead of treating it as AND/OR.
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The change introduces Query::relationship, validates relationship-specific child queries, excludes relationship queries from ordinary filters, and applies nested filtering, selection, ordering, and per-parent pagination across relationship population paths.

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Nested relationship queries

Layer / File(s) Summary
Relationship query contract and validation
src/Database/Query.php, src/Database/Validator/..., tests/unit/QueryTest.php, tests/unit/Validator/...
Adds Query::relationship, relationship query grouping, relationship validation, pagination checks, and round-trip and validator tests.
Relationship population and slicing
src/Database/Database.php, src/Database/Mirror.php
Processes relationship queries during find, propagates selection state, applies per-parent pagination and ordering, and adds callback-scoped validation suppression.
Adapter relationship filtering
src/Database/Adapter/*.php
Excludes relationship queries from ordinary Memory, MongoDB, Redis, and SQL filtering paths.
Relationship filter and contract coverage
tests/e2e/Adapter/Scopes/RelationshipTests.php
Covers nested filters, sibling relationships, depth-two traversal, aggregates, query reuse, validation, and operation contracts.
Relationship slicing and ordering coverage
tests/e2e/Adapter/Scopes/RelationshipTests.php, tests/e2e/Adapter/Scopes/Relationships/ManyToManyTests.php
Covers per-parent limits, offsets, cursors, survivor fan-out, selections, singular filters, and many-to-many ordering.

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Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Database
  participant RelationshipQuery
  participant RelatedAdapter
  Client->>Database: find with Query::relationship
  Database->>RelationshipQuery: classify and process child queries
  RelationshipQuery->>RelatedAdapter: fetch related documents
  RelatedAdapter-->>Database: return related documents
  Database-->>Client: return populated and sliced documents
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Nested relationship queries can produce incorrect child projections, and adding ordering can change child counts for relationships containing duplicate entries. These correctness issues should be resolved before merge.

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The PR appears safe to merge because no actionable new defect or outstanding previous finding remains.

Summary

  • Routes relationship clauses through query parsing, grouping, validation, and relationship population.
  • Prevents relationship clauses from leaking into adapter predicates when validation is skipped.
  • Preserves ordered many-to-many results across chunks and limits deeper traversal to surviving children.
  • Adds schema validation for inner selections and restores Mirror validation state independently.
  • Expands behavioral coverage across nested selection, filtering, ordering, pagination, aggregation, mutation rejection, and adapter behavior.

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…sAll parent-set

sliceRelated ignored offset whenever a cursor was present, so a legal
cursor+offset nested page started one child too early.

Dotted containsAll is a parent-set operator. Forwarding it onto each
child required one related document to hold every value and emptied
the populated array.

Many-to-many nested order now re-sorts concatenated chunk results so
order holds across RELATION_QUERY_CHUNK_SIZE boundaries.

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tests/e2e/Adapter/Scopes/RelationshipTests.php (1)

4821-4822: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make createNestedSkeletonFixture idempotent.

The adapter test classes reuse a static Database, and PHPUnit runs without process isolation. A failed test can therefore leave nsk_* collections behind. In testNestedSkeletonContract, $this->fail() throws AssertionFailedError, not QueryException, so cleanup is skipped. The next fixture setup then throws DuplicateException for nsk_authors.

Apply the same cleanup pattern used by createNestedSliceFixture:

♻️ Proposed fix
     private function createNestedSkeletonFixture(Database $database): void
     {
+        $this->dropNestedSliceCollections($database, ['nsk_posts', 'nsk_comments', 'nsk_tags', 'nsk_authors']);
+
         $permissions = [
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In `@tests/e2e/Adapter/Scopes/RelationshipTests.php` around lines 4821 - 4822,
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In `@src/Database/Database.php`:
- Around line 5707-5719: The ordered and unordered branches must apply the same
duplicate policy when building $documentRelated. Update the logic around
$wanted, $foundRelated, and $relatedDocIds so duplicate related IDs produce
consistent results in both branches, while preserving the existing ordering
behavior and lookup semantics.
- Around line 10355-10410: Update the nested-query handling in Database::find()
to validate each child query’s filter attributes against the related collection
schema before fetching parent results or performing relationship population.
Reuse the existing nested-query validation and related collection schema
mechanisms, while preserving validation for relationship keys and supported
child query types.

In `@src/Database/Validator/Queries.php`:
- Line 74: Update Nested::isValid() to recursively inspect logical child values
and reject any Query::TYPE_NESTED operand, including nested queries inside
Query::TYPE_OR; preserve validation of non-nested children and add a validator
test covering this exact OR-with-nested-query tree.

---

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In `@tests/e2e/Adapter/Scopes/RelationshipTests.php`:
- Around line 4821-4822: Make createNestedSkeletonFixture idempotent by applying
the same cleanup pattern as createNestedSliceFixture, ensuring existing nsk_*
collections are removed before fixture creation and cleanup still occurs when
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Comment thread src/Database/Database.php
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…ore offset

Redis find() treated TYPE_NESTED as an unknown filter and threw on
skipValidation or([nested(), equal()]). Ignore nested there the same
way Memory already does.

cursorBefore plus an offset larger than the preceding window used
array_slice's negative-offset clamp and returned the first page instead
of empty. Reverse, offset, limit, reverse matches top-level find().

Re-sort many-to-many chunk results with the same $sequence tie-break
find() appends. Reject nested() smuggled inside inner AND/OR.
Mirror::disableValidation() also disables the source and destination
instances. Database::skipValidation() only restored Mirror's own flag,
so a skipValidation() call permanently turned off query validation on
the source. Nested-query contract tests then accepted updateDocuments
with TYPE_NESTED, and later structure checks saw PDO/Character errors
instead of StructureException.
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skipValidation() now snapshots Mirror, source, and destination flags
and writes those values back after the callback. enableValidation()
on the way out was overwriting a source that had been disabled on
its own.

Drop NestedTest::testGetMethodType(); it only asserted a constant.
The public factory and type should read as a relationship query,
matching the validator and groupByType bucket.
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In `@src/Database/Validator/Query/Relationship.php`:
- Around line 76-77: Update Relationship::isValid() to validate every child
query’s method and reject unsupported types, including select children, before
local projection. In the one-to-many and many-to-one population paths, validate
nested selections against the related collection before passing them to
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Comment thread src/Database/Validator/Query/Relationship.php
One-to-many and many-to-one population applied nested selects locally
without schema checks, so a malformed inner select projected silently.
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