path.cljs

(defui Employee
  static om/Ident
  (ident [_ {:keys [id]}]
    [:person/by-id id])
  static om/IQuery
  (query [this]
    [:id :name])
  Object
  (render [this]
    ;; om/full-query throws
    ;; "No queries exist for component path (om-tutorial.ping/People om-tutorial.ping/Employee) or data path [[:person/by-id 2]]"
    (println "full-query" (om/full-query this))
    (dom/div nil
             (dom/pre nil (.stringify js/JSON (clj->js (om/props this)) nil 2)))))

(def employee (om/factory Employee))

(defui People
  static om/IQuery
  (query [this]
    [{[:person/by-id 2] (om/get-query Employee)}])
  Object
  (render [this]
    (dom/div nil
             (employee (-> this om/props (get [:person/by-id 2]))))))

path2.edn

;; indexer output at that class path

#{[[:id :name]
   {:l [[:person/by-id 2]],
    :pnodes
    [[{[:person/by-id 2] [:id :name]}]
     {[:person/by-id 2] [:id :name]}
     [[:person/by-id 2] [:id :name]]],
    :ppath
    {:l [],
     :pnodes
     [[{[:person/by-id 2] [:id :name]}]
      {[:person/by-id 2] [:id :name]}],
     :ppath
     {:l [],
      :pnodes [[{[:person/by-id 2] [:id :name]}]],
      :ppath nil, 
      :r nil}, 
     :r nil}, 
    :r nil}]}