Check existing relationships BEFORE relationship add?

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Hello

Is there a way to see what the relationships were when we call the “before_relationship_add” ?

Something like $bean->fetched_row, but for relationships, so we see a “snapshot” of the relationships when we first load the bean.

If I do $bean->load_relationship it will show me old and new related info all in one.

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Solution:
Basically we can see what new record were added by checking

$arguments['related_module']

and

$arguments['related_id']

So for example if we have a 3 records with IDs 1,2 and 3 and the latest ID that was added is 3 ($arguments ‘related_id’), that means that originally IDs 1 and 2 were there (these are the old relationships).

This is kind of backwards and was hoping that before_relationship_add would behave the same as before_relationship_delete (where as you can check what relationships were prior to deletion by simply calling load_relationship), but this is a working solution nonetheless

So technically speaking we can even do this in the after_relationship_add hook

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