Get underlying non-aliased table from aliased table in jOOQ

Question

I have an aliased table

Author a = AUTHOR.as("a");

and I'm trying to access the underlying table AUTHOR from a but cant see how to.

I've tried a.alias.wrapped but that doesn't work for me

Answer 1

The underlying table is not exposed via the Aliased table and so you can't get it.

Instead if trying to get check if the Aliased table is a certain type (which was the original reason I wanted the underlying table) you can do

if (a is Author) {
 // Do Something
}