First, I have the Post model, which has been migrated to the database:

type Post struct {
    ID              uuid.UUID           `gorm:"type:uuid;default:uuid_generate_v4();primary_key"`
    UserId          uuid.UUID           `gorm:"type:uuid;not null"`
    User            User                `gorm:"foreignKey:UserId;constraint:OnUpdate:CASCADE,OnDelete:CASCADE;"`
    ParentId        *uuid.UUID          `gorm:"type:uuid;default:null"`
    ParentPost      *Post               `gorm:"foreignKey:ParentId;constraint:OnUpdate:CASCADE,OnDelete:CASCADE;"`
    Content         string              `gorm:"type:text;not null"`
}

Next, I have a similar model, but with an additional field isLiked, this model is not migrated and is only used to map from Post model to

type PostWithLiked struct {
    ID              uuid.UUID           `gorm:"type:uuid;default:uuid_generate_v4();primary_key"`
    UserId          uuid.UUID           `gorm:"type:uuid;not null"`
    User            User                `gorm:"foreignKey:UserId;constraint:OnUpdate:CASCADE,OnDelete:CASCADE;"`
    ParentId        *uuid.UUID          `gorm:"type:uuid;default:null"`
    ParentPost      *Post               `gorm:"foreignKey:ParentId;constraint:OnUpdate:CASCADE,OnDelete:CASCADE;"`
    Content         string              `gorm:"type:text;not null"`
    IsLiked         bool
}

This is the function to execute the query

func (r *rPost) GetOne(
    ctx context.Context,
    id uuid.UUID,
    authenticatedUserId uuid.UUID,
) (*entities.PostWithLiked, error) {
    var postModel models.PostWithLiked

    if err := r.db.WithContext(ctx).
        Model(&models.Post{}).
        Select(`posts.*,
        EXISTS (
           SELECT 1
           FROM like_user_posts
           WHERE like_user_posts.post_id = posts.id AND like_user_posts.user_id = ?
        ) AS is_liked
        `, authenticatedUserId).
        Where("posts.id = ?", id).
        Preload("User").
        Preload("ParentPost.User").
        First(&postModel).
        Error; err != nil {
        return nil, err
    }

    return mapper.FromPostWithLikedModel(&postModel), nil
}

Here is the query result

[56.799ms] [rows:0] SELECT * FROM "posts" WHERE "posts"."parent_id" = '354fd551-96f0-4899-a7d7-e38ef524636f' AND "posts"."deleted_at" IS NULL

[56.020ms] [rows:1] SELECT * FROM "users" WHERE "users"."id" = '129f1a32-ad18-49f1-b989-b6cd4c243e30' AND "users"."deleted_at" IS NULL

[469.482ms] [rows:1] SELECT posts.*,
        EXISTS (
           SELECT 1
           FROM like_user_posts
           WHERE like_user_posts.post_id = posts.id AND like_user_posts.user_id = '7dfdf978-9706-4720-aa3f-382af4b14f70'
        ) AS is_liked
         FROM "posts" WHERE posts.id = '354fd551-96f0-4899-a7d7-e38ef524636f' AND "posts"."deleted_at" IS NULL ORDER BY "posts"."id" LIMIT 1

ParentPost preload is wrong, actually the parent_id of the post is 6d591d06-80ee-4cf3-9695-e1eb986d7885, but it puts the post id in as 354fd551-96f0-4899-a7d7-e38ef524636f to perform preload

when i do the mappingFirst(&models.Post) parent post is preloaded correctly, but when i use PostWithLiked model then preload parentPost uses id of original post instead of parent_id. Please help me.

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