CakePHP: creating fixtures for aliased tables - cakephp

Question

I am using a table to store optional data about a number of different types of objects. Thus the table has the following structure:
create table options
(
id int auto_increment
primary key,
object_id int not null,
object_model varchar(255) not null,
option_name varchar(255) not null,
option_value text null,
created datetime not null,
modified datetime not null
);
create index object_model
on options (object_model);
Optional values are found by a combination of both the ID of the object to look up and by the model from which that object comes. Here is how an example model, my Images model, uses it:
$this->hasMany('ImageOptions', [
'foreignKey' => 'object_id',
'className' => 'Options',
'dependent' => true,
])->setConditions(['ImageOptions.object_model LIKE' => $this->getAlias()]);
This system has worked fine for me in the past, but now that I'm running PHPUnit on my application, there seems to be some confusion. When saving a new image with metadata to save to this table, I get the message:
1) Visualize\Test\TestCase\Controller\ImagesControllerTest::testAddSubmit
Possibly related to Cake\Database\Exception: "SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'visualize_test.options' doesn't exist"
I can assure you that the table is there and works fine. I'm able to browse the page with no such error messages and even submit a new image without incident. But not in the test.
I assume this has something to do with the aliasing of the database table, but I'm unsure how to resolve it or work around it? Thanks in advance for the help!
Here also is my fixture for ImageOptions:
<?php
declare(strict_types=1);
namespace Visualize\Test\Fixture;
use Cake\TestSuite\Fixture\TestFixture;
/**
* OptionsFixture
*/
class ImageOptionsFixture extends TestFixture
{
/**
* Table
*
* #var string
*/
public $table = 'options';
/**
* Fields
*
* #var array
*/
// phpcs:disable
public $fields = [
'id' => ['type' => 'integer', 'length' => null, 'unsigned' => false, 'null' => false, 'default' => null, 'comment' => '', 'autoIncrement' => true, 'precision' => null],
'object_id' => ['type' => 'integer', 'length' => null, 'unsigned' => false, 'null' => false, 'default' => null, 'comment' => '', 'precision' => null, 'autoIncrement' => null],
'object_model' => ['type' => 'string', 'length' => 255, 'null' => false, 'default' => null, 'collate' => 'utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci', 'comment' => '', 'precision' => null],
'option_name' => ['type' => 'string', 'length' => 255, 'null' => false, 'default' => null, 'collate' => 'utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci', 'comment' => '', 'precision' => null],
'option_value' => ['type' => 'text', 'length' => null, 'null' => true, 'default' => null, 'collate' => 'utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci', 'comment' => '', 'precision' => null],
'created' => ['type' => 'datetime', 'length' => null, 'precision' => null, 'null' => false, 'default' => null, 'comment' => ''],
'modified' => ['type' => 'datetime', 'length' => null, 'precision' => null, 'null' => false, 'default' => null, 'comment' => ''],
'_indexes' => [
'object_model' => ['type' => 'index', 'columns' => ['object_model'], 'length' => []],
],
'_constraints' => [
'primary' => ['type' => 'primary', 'columns' => ['id'], 'length' => []],
],
'_options' => [
'engine' => 'InnoDB',
'collation' => 'utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci'
],
];
// phpcs:enable
/**
* Init method
*
* #return void
*/
public function init(): void
{
$this->records = [
[
'id' => 4,
'object_id' => 1,
'object_model' => 'Images',
'option_name' => 'this_value',
'option_value' => 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, aliquet feugiat.',
'created' => '2021-09-03 10:34:42',
'modified' => '2021-09-03 10:34:42',
],
[
'id' => 5,
'object_id' => 1,
'object_model' => 'Images',
'option_name' => 'that_value',
'option_value' => 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, aliquet feugiat.',
'created' => '2021-09-03 10:34:42',
'modified' => '2021-09-03 10:34:42',
],
[
'id' => 6,
'object_id' => 1,
'object_model' => 'Images',
'option_name' => 'the_other_value',
'option_value' => 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, aliquet feugiat.',
'created' => '2021-09-03 10:34:42',
'modified' => '2021-09-03 10:34:42',
]
];
parent::init();
}
}
And an example of one test which is failing is here: