Cascade error with a mandatory one-to-many relationship - sails.js

I am using Sails 1.1.0. I tried the below with sails-disk and sails-mongo adapter.
I created a mandatory-one-to-many rerlationship. A Sofa has owner which is one-to-many to User and a Sofa also has a home which is one-to-many with Home. However when I await Home.destroy(homeId); the Home, its not cascading down and deleting the Sofa. Instead I get error:
PropagationError: Failed to run the "cascade" polyfill. Could not propagate the potential destruction of this home record.
Details:
Cannot wipe the contents of association (`sofas`) because there is one conflicting shame record whose `home` cannot be set to `null`. (That attribute is required.)
This error originated from the fact that the "cascade" polyfill was enabled for this query.
Tip: Try reordering your .destroy() calls.
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Here are my model associations:
// api\models\Sofa.js
owner: {
model: 'user',
required: true
},
home: {
model: 'home',
required: true
},
// api\models\User.js
sofas: {
collection: 'sofa',
via: 'owner'
},
// api\models\Home.js
sofas: {
collection: 'sofa',
via: 'home'
},
Does anyone have any ideas why this happens?

I got the same issue recently, using sails-disk adapter with inMemoryOnly: true option, you don't need to clean the database because is memory only and when test is finished it will be cleaned automatically.
datastores: {
default: {
adapter: 'sails-disk',
inMemoryOnly: true
},
}

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Services
attributes: {
status: {
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via: 'id',
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Users
attributes: {
email: {
type: 'string',
required: true,
unique: true
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Now I would like to transition to associations using the above model attributes.
This works by calling the ID of the service just fine (it includes the users data as well), however if all i have is the user, how could I get the service
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EDIT:
Let me try make this more clear. Before trying to do associations, I could call this URL (using blueprint)
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Now I would like to implement associations using the above model scheme.
However, because (my best guess) the userId field of the service is mapped to the Users model, I am unable to search for a Server using the userId field that is stored.
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I use Sails blueprints to generate part of my api.
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So for example, let's say I have the following Event model:
module.exports = {
attributes: {
title: {
type: 'string',
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When I Send a POST request to the /event/ endpoint with the following params:
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The saved mongo document contains also the "random":"string" value, even though it's not part of the model.
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schema: true,
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I have been trying with associations but it seems wrong to create an extra model and associate that to my original model.
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module.exports = {
schema: true,
autoCreatedAt: false,
autoUpdatedAt: false,
autoPK: false,
attributes: {
name: {
type: 'string'
},
url: {
type: 'string'
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summary: {
type: 'text'
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}
};
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tableName: 'countries',
connection: 'someMysqlServer',
schema: true,
migrate: 'safe',
autoCreatedAt: false,
autoUpdatedAt: false,
attributes: {
country_id: {
type: 'integer',
primaryKey: true,
autoIncrement: true
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....
}
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connection: 'somePostgresqlServer',
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id: {
type: 'integer',
primaryKey: true,
autoIncrement: true
},
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model: 'country'
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and get error
sails> Error (E_UNKNOWN) :: Encountered an unexpected error
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[TypeError: Cannot read property 'definition' of undefined]
at _getPK (/projects/foturist-server/node_modules/sails-postgresql/lib/adapter.js:923:13)
at StrategyPlanner.__FIND__.Cursor.$getPK (/projects/foturist-server/node_modules/sails-postgresql/lib/adapter.js:504:20)
.....
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I made the following bug report
https://github.com/balderdashy/waterline/issues/529