Column not found, retrieving data associated model - cakephp

Question

I've got the following find() function
$this->User->find('all',array(
'conditions' => array('User.id' => $this->Auth->user('id')),
'fields' => array('User.id','UserRole.id')
));
And the following associations are defined
// UserRole.php
class UserRole extends AppModel {
public $belongsTo = array(
'User' => array(
'className' => 'User',
'foreignKey' => 'user_id'
)
);
}
// User.php
class User extends AppModel {
public $hasMany = array(
'UserRole' => array(
'className' => 'UserRole',
'foreignKey' => 'user_id',
'dependent' => false,
)
);
}
And In App model recursive is set to -1
public $recursive = -1;
The database tables are the following:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `user_roles` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`event_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
`role_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
`user_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `users` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`email` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
`password` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
`first_name` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
`last_name` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
`created` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
`modified` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
UNIQUE KEY `email` (`email`)
But I get the vollowing error
Error: SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'UserRole.id' in 'field list'
SQL Query: SELECT `User`.`id`, `UserRole`.`id` FROM `atlanta`.`users` AS `User` WHERE `User`.`id` = 5
I get that cake can't find the UserRole.id, but what did I do wrong?

Answer 1

Either you use some behavior like Containable and your find() will look like this
$this->User->find('all',array(
'conditions' => array('User.id' => $this->Auth->user('id')),
'contain' => array(
'UserRole' => array(
'fields'=>array('id')
)
),
'fields' => array('id')
));
OR you set recursive to 1
$this->User->find('all',array(
'conditions' => array('User.id' => $this->Auth->user('id')),
'fields' => array('User.id'), // UPDATE: unfortunately you cant specify associated models fields without behavior
'recursive' => 1
));
The thing is that when recursive is set to -1 or 0 it does not fetch associated models unless some behavior takes care of that for e.g. Containable or Linkable.