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                    Has One
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                    Association Mode
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                    CRUD: Reading and Writing Data
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                    Associations
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                    Raw SQL & SQL Builder
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                    Composite Primary Key
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                                <h1 id="associations">Associations</h1>
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<h2 id="belongs-to">Belongs To</h2>
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<pre><code class="lang-go"><span class="hljs-comment">// `User` belongs to `Profile`, `ProfileID` is the foreign key</span>
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<span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> User <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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  gorm.Model
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  Profile   Profile
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  ProfileID <span class="hljs-keyword">int</span>
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<span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> Profile <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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  Name <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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db.Model(&user).Related(&profile)
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<span class="hljs-comment">//// SELECT * FROM profiles WHERE id = 111; // 111 is user's foreign key ProfileID</span>
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<p><em>Specify Foreign Key</em></p>
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<pre><code class="lang-go"><span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> Profile <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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    gorm.Model
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    Name <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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}
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<span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> User <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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    gorm.Model
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    Profile      Profile <span class="hljs-string">`gorm:"ForeignKey:ProfileRefer"`</span> <span class="hljs-comment">// use ProfileRefer as foreign key</span>
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    ProfileRefer <span class="hljs-keyword">int</span>
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<p><em>Specify Foreign Key & Association Key</em></p>
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<pre><code class="lang-go"><span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> Profile <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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    gorm.Model
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    Refer <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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    Name  <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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}
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<span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> User <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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    gorm.Model
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    Profile   Profile <span class="hljs-string">`gorm:"ForeignKey:ProfileID;AssociationForeignKey:Refer"`</span>
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    ProfileID <span class="hljs-keyword">int</span>
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}
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<h2 id="has-one">Has One</h2>
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<pre><code class="lang-go"><span class="hljs-comment">// User has one CreditCard, UserID is the foreign key</span>
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<span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> User <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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    gorm.Model
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    CreditCard   CreditCard
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}
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<span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> CreditCard <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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    UserID   <span class="hljs-keyword">uint</span>
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    Number   <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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}
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<span class="hljs-keyword">var</span> card CreditCard
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db.Model(&user).Related(&card, <span class="hljs-string">"CreditCard"</span>)
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<span class="hljs-comment">//// SELECT * FROM credit_cards WHERE user_id = 123; // 123 is user's primary key</span>
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<span class="hljs-comment">// CreditCard is user's field name, it means get user's CreditCard relations and fill it into variable card</span>
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<span class="hljs-comment">// If the field name is same as the variable's type name, like above example, it could be omitted, like:</span>
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db.Model(&user).Related(&card)
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<pre><code class="lang-go"><span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> Profile <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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  gorm.Model
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  Name      <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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  UserRefer <span class="hljs-keyword">uint</span>
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}
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<span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> User <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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  gorm.Model
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  Profile Profile <span class="hljs-string">`gorm:"ForeignKey:UserRefer"`</span>
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<p><em>Specify Foreign Key & Association Key</em></p>
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<pre><code class="lang-go"><span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> Profile <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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  gorm.Model
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  Name   <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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  UserID <span class="hljs-keyword">uint</span>
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}
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<span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> User <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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  gorm.Model
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  Refer   <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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  Profile Profile <span class="hljs-string">`gorm:"ForeignKey:UserID;AssociationForeignKey:Refer"`</span>
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}
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<h2 id="has-many">Has Many</h2>
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<pre><code class="lang-go"><span class="hljs-comment">// User has many emails, UserID is the foreign key</span>
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<span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> User <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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    gorm.Model
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    Emails   []Email
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}
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<span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> Email <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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    gorm.Model
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    Email   <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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    UserID  <span class="hljs-keyword">uint</span>
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}
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db.Model(&user).Related(&emails)
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<span class="hljs-comment">//// SELECT * FROM emails WHERE user_id = 111; // 111 is user's primary key</span>
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<p><em>Specify Foreign Key</em></p>
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<pre><code class="lang-go"><span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> Profile <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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  gorm.Model
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  Name      <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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  UserRefer <span class="hljs-keyword">uint</span>
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}
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<span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> User <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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  gorm.Model
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  Profiles []Profile <span class="hljs-string">`gorm:"ForeignKey:UserRefer"`</span>
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}
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<p><em>Specify Foreign Key & Association Key</em></p>
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<pre><code class="lang-go"><span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> Profile <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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  gorm.Model
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  Name   <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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  UserID <span class="hljs-keyword">uint</span>
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}
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<span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> User <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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  gorm.Model
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  Refer   <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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  Profiles []Profile <span class="hljs-string">`gorm:"ForeignKey:UserID;AssociationForeignKey:Refer"`</span>
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}
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<h2 id="many-to-many">Many To Many</h2>
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<pre><code class="lang-go"><span class="hljs-comment">// User has and belongs to many languages, use `user_languages` as join table</span>
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<span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> User <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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}
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<span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> Language <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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    gorm.Model
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    Name <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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}
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db.Model(&user).Related(&languages, <span class="hljs-string">"Languages"</span>)
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<span class="hljs-comment">//// SELECT * FROM "languages" INNER JOIN "user_languages" ON "user_languages"."language_id" = "languages"."id" WHERE "user_languages"."user_id" = 111</span>
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<p><em>Specify Foreign Key & Association Key</em></p>
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<pre><code class="lang-go"><span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> CustomizePerson <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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  IdPerson <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>             <span class="hljs-string">`gorm:"primary_key:true"`</span>
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  Accounts []CustomizeAccount <span class="hljs-string">`gorm:"many2many:PersonAccount;AssociationForeignKey:idAccount;ForeignKey:idPerson"`</span>
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<span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> CustomizeAccount <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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  IdAccount <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span> <span class="hljs-string">`gorm:"primary_key:true"`</span>
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  Name      <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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}
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<h2 id="polymorphism">Polymorphism</h2>
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<p>Supports polymorphic has-many and has-one associations.</p>
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<pre><code class="lang-go">  <span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> Cat <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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    Name  <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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    Toy   Toy <span class="hljs-string">`gorm:"polymorphic:Owner;"`</span>
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  <span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> Dog <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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    Id   <span class="hljs-keyword">int</span>
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    Name <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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    Toy  Toy <span class="hljs-string">`gorm:"polymorphic:Owner;"`</span>
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  <span class="hljs-keyword">type</span> Toy <span class="hljs-keyword">struct</span> {
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    Id        <span class="hljs-keyword">int</span>
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    Name      <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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    OwnerId   <span class="hljs-keyword">int</span>
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    OwnerType <span class="hljs-keyword">string</span>
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<p>Note: polymorphic belongs-to and many-to-many are explicitly NOT supported, and will throw errors.</p>
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<h2 id="association-mode">Association Mode</h2>
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<p>Association Mode contains some helper methods to handle relationship things easily.</p>
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<pre><code class="lang-go"><span class="hljs-comment">// Start Association Mode</span>
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<span class="hljs-keyword">var</span> user User
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db.Model(&user).Association(<span class="hljs-string">"Languages"</span>)
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<span class="hljs-comment">// `user` is the source, it need to be a valid record (contains primary key)</span>
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<span class="hljs-comment">// `Languages` is source's field name for a relationship.</span>
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<span class="hljs-comment">// If those conditions not matched, will return an error, check it with:</span>
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<span class="hljs-comment">// db.Model(&user).Association("Languages").Error</span>
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<span class="hljs-comment">// Query - Find out all related associations</span>
 | 
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db.Model(&user).Association(<span class="hljs-string">"Languages"</span>).Find(&languages)
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<span class="hljs-comment">// Append - Append new associations for many2many, has_many, will replace current association for has_one, belongs_to</span>
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db.Model(&user).Association(<span class="hljs-string">"Languages"</span>).Append([]Language{languageZH, languageEN})
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db.Model(&user).Association(<span class="hljs-string">"Languages"</span>).Append(Language{Name: <span class="hljs-string">"DE"</span>})
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<span class="hljs-comment">// Delete - Remove relationship between source & passed arguments, won't delete those arguments</span>
 | 
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db.Model(&user).Association(<span class="hljs-string">"Languages"</span>).Delete([]Language{languageZH, languageEN})
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db.Model(&user).Association(<span class="hljs-string">"Languages"</span>).Delete(languageZH, languageEN)
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<span class="hljs-comment">// Replace - Replace current associations with new one</span>
 | 
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db.Model(&user).Association(<span class="hljs-string">"Languages"</span>).Replace([]Language{languageZH, languageEN})
 | 
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db.Model(&user).Association(<span class="hljs-string">"Languages"</span>).Replace(Language{Name: <span class="hljs-string">"DE"</span>}, languageEN)
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<span class="hljs-comment">// Count - Return the count of current associations</span>
 | 
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db.Model(&user).Association(<span class="hljs-string">"Languages"</span>).Count()
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<span class="hljs-comment">// Clear - Remove relationship between source & current associations, won't delete those associations</span>
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db.Model(&user).Association(<span class="hljs-string">"Languages"</span>).Clear()
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