Self-Referencing ManyToMany Relationship TypeORM

I have just started using TypeORM and I'm struggling getting the following relationship to work:

User->Friends, whereas a Friend is also a User Object. My getters, getFriends & getFriendsInverse are working, however; I do now want to distinguish between the two. In other words; when I perform a mysql join I do not want to do a left join on friends and another one on inverseFriends.

The getter getFriends() needs to return all friends, regardless of which "side" the object I'm on.

Does that make sense?

This is my model definition:

getFriends() {
    // This method should also return inverseFriends;
    // I do not want to return the concat version; this should
    // happen on the database/orm level
    // So I dont want: this.friends.concat(this.inverseFriends) 
    return this.friends;
}

@ManyToMany(type => User, user => user.friendsInverse, {
    cascadeInsert: false,
    cascadeUpdate: false,
})
@JoinTable()
friends = [];

@ManyToMany(type => User, user => user.friends, {
    cascadeInsert: true,
    cascadeUpdate: true,
    cascadeRemove: false,
})
friendsInverse = [];

I hope someone understands my question :D Thanks Matt

via Matt Brandt