When building Expression instances for attribute traversals we now inspect the mapping annotation to detect non-optional associations and prevent an extra left join from being created. This is because the join is only necessary to not drop null values from the result.
Added integration tests for Hibernate, EclipseLink and OpenJpa. EclipseLink needs a bit of special treatment as it exposes the inner join being created for a plain ….get(…) attribute traversal.
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