Android Room: How to read from two tables at the same time - duplicate id column

Question

I\'m new to Android Room. I want to read from a table and also read from a related table. The relationship is pretty common. One table defines instances. The other table defines

Answer 1

waqaslam pointed the way to the solution. He suggested to alias the column names. The additional step is to give the second table a prefix.

public class AnimalWithType {
@Embedded
private Animal animal;

@Embedded(prefix = "type_")
private AnimalType type;
...

The column aliases are long and messy. I hope that someone can find a cleaner way.

@Query("select animal.id, animal.name..., animal_type.id as type_id... from animal join animal_type on (animal.id = animal_type.id)")