Model navigation properties

Hi,

I have three entities in my DB:

robot <<------->> charateristic_value <<------->> charateristic

<<-------->> means many-to-many.

The DB schema for this is:

• Table: robot
• Table: robot_charateristic_value (many-to-many between robot and charateristic_value)
• Table: charateristic_value
• Table: charateristic_charateristic_value (many-to-many between charateristic and charateristic_value)
• Table: charateristic

The Models, with all hasManyToMany and belgonsTo configurated in their initialize methods, are:

• Robot
• RobotCharateristicValue
• CharateristicValue
• CharateristicCharateristicValue
• Charateristic

I am inside Robot model. I'm implementing a Method that returns all Charateristic of this Robot with charateristic_name = "COLOR". I'd like to do something like that:

    $this->RobotCharateristicValue->CharateristicValue->CharateristicCharateristicValue->Charateristic(array(
         'CharateristicName = "EYE"',
     ));

Is there any way to do something like that? Or is it necessary to use the ::query() method?

Thank you.