source() method on aliased plugin Entity

[arilia]

about this question I opened in stackoverflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31848771/cakephp-3-0-get-table-object-from-aliased-plugin-entity

what I did

//plugins/Users/src/Model/Table/GroupsTable.php

$this->belongsTo('Parents', [
    'className' => 'Users.Groups',
    'foreignKey' => 'parent_id'
]);

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// Some controller

$groupsTable = TableRegistry::get('Users.Groups');
$group = $groupsTable->get($some_id, ['contain' => 'Parents']);
$className =  $group->parent->source();

what I expected

$className contains Users.Parents

what I get

$className contains Parents without the reference to the plugin name

[markstory]

But the source() method returns the 'alias' of the association/class, not the class name. Is this causing you problems?

Ok, I see the issue. The root entities use the prefixed alias, while the associations do not.

[arilia]

I have an entity, and I need to instantiate its table.

If I use TableRegistry::get(); with the alias I don't get the right table if the entity comes from a plugin. How can I get the entity table? Is there another way than unig source()?

[markstory]

Pull request up now #7188