Cake PHP 2.10 paginator not joining models

Question

I'm trying to join my ApplicationPayday model to my Application in my Cake PHP 2.10 application via the joins property in my paginator. For some reason though, I'm only seeing the Application and not my joined Payday, what am I missing as this works if I do a regular model query outside of pagination.

// define pagination settings
$this->Paginator->settings = array(
        'maxLimit' => 20,
        'joins' => array(
                array(
                        'table' => 'tlp_application_paydays',
                        'alias' => 'ApplicationPayday',
                        'type' => 'inner',
                        'conditions' => array(
                                'ApplicationPayday.application_id = Application.id'
                        )
                ),
        ),
        'order' => array(
                'Application.id' => 'desc'
        ),
        'recursive' => -1
);

// run query to get applications via paginated settings
$applications = $this->Paginator->paginate('Application');

echo '<pre>';
var_dump($applications);
echo '</pre>';

Answer 1

I recommend removing recursive = -1 and use contain() like this:

$this->Application->contain([
    'ApplicationPayday',
]);

Read more about contain() here: https://book.cakephp.org/2/en/core-libraries/behaviors/containable.html