Cakephp - HABTM relationship lost after calling method - cakephp

Question

The Issue
I have two methods I need to call in my getContacts function. These methods are as follows:
Method 1:
$authenticated = $this->authenticateUserInternal($inputData['auth']);
Method 2:
$result = $this->Consumer->find('first', array( 'conditions' => array('Consumer.id' => 81)));
When I invoke these methods one after the other my resultset in $result does not have data from related tables. It seems like Method 1 is killing the relationship or affecting my results somehow, but it's a completely un-related function in the AppController.
The Code
The the Consumer model has a HABTM relationship to my Users model through a join table consumers_users.
Consumer Model
public $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
'User' => array( 'className' => 'User', 'joinTable' => 'consumers_users', 'foreignKey' => 'consumer_id', 'associationForeignKey' => 'user_id', ));
User Model
public $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
'Consumer' => array(
'className' => 'Consumer',
'joinTable' => 'consumers_users',
'foreignKey' => 'user_id',
'associationForeignKey' => 'consumer_id',
));
ConsumersUsers Model
public $belongsTo = array(
'User' => array( 'className' => 'User', 'foreignKey' => 'user_id', ), 'Consumer' => array( 'className' => 'Consumer', 'foreignKey' => 'consumer_id', ), );
My normal result
"Consumer": {
"id": "81",
"fullname": "consumer2",
"email": "consumer2#cici.mailgun.org",
"password": "111111",
"dateregistered": "2013-08-18",
"audio": "0"
}, "User": [
{
"id": "179",
"fullname": "leesa",
"email": "lda#hotmail.com",
"password": "111111",
"imageurl": "http://bridgefiles.s3.amazonaws.com/2013-07-18-144613_IMG_0773.jpeg",
"thumb_url": "http://bridgefiles.s3.amazonaws.com/2013-07-18-144613_IMG_0773.jpeg",
"messagecount": "2",
"dateregistered": "2013-07-29",
"phone1": null,
"phone2": null,
"videoaddress": null,
"ConsumersUser": {
"id": "17",
"consumer_id": "81",
"status": "accepted",
"user_id": "179"
}
},
The Actual Result
"Consumer": {
"id": "81",
"fullname": "consumer2",
"email": "consumer2#cici.mailgun.org",
"password": "111111",
"dateregistered": "2013-08-18",
"audio": "0"
}

Answer 1

You are selecting only the table consumer, I think that the right way is to load the join table and insert recursive 1 to retrieve both table Consumer and User
try this:
$this->loadModel('ConsumersUsers');
$result = $this->ConsumersUsers->find('first', array( 'conditions' => array('Consumer.id' => 81), 'recursive' => 1));