Sequelize: How can I prevent virtual columns from included relation from appearing in query result?

Question

I have a query that looks like this:

  return GroupMember.findOne({ where: { gid: gid, member_id: uid }, include: [ { model: User, as: 'member', attributes: ['display_name'], }, { model: Group, as: 'group', attributes: ['name'], } ] }); 

So, for the "member" relation, I am requesting only the 'display_name" column. However, the User model has 3 virtual columns declared in it, and they are always present in the query result even though I asked for only 'display_name'. How do I prevent the virtual columns from being present in the result?

Answer 1

So for excluding virtual columns, you have to use the exclude property the attributes field, so the new query should be like this

    return GroupMember.findOne({
    where: { gid: gid, member_id: uid },
    include: [
        {
            model: User,
            as: 'member',
            attributes: { include: ['display_name'], exclude: ['virtual_columne_name1', 'virtual_columne_name2', 'virtual_columne_name3']},
        },
        {
            model: Group,
            as: 'group',
            attributes: ['name'],
        }
    ]
});