How does one find existence of (Adonis Lucid Many-to-Many) children records on one parent that meet a criteria?

I'm trying to find existence of certain Permissions on a single parent Role (many-to-many).

const roles = await Role
  .query()
  .preload('permissions')

this.role = roles.find(role => role.id === someid)

const exists = this.role.permissions.some(permission => permission.name === 'something')

This is the solution so far, which seems not optimal. Is there a way to do this without loading all the roles and permissions and looping through them in Javascript? Thank you so much

Try using whereHas (https://docs.adonisjs.com/reference/orm/query-builder#wherehas):

await Role.query()
  .where('id', someid)
  .whereHas('permissions', q => {
    q.where('name', 'something')
  })