I'm building up an application for an already existing and used database with a Many-to-Many relation looking like this:
Table User:
Id int primary key
Table Role:
Id int primary key
Table UserRoles:
UserId int primary key and foreign key to User.Id
RoleId int primary key and foreign key to Role.Id
Now the goal is to implement the many-to-many relation in LoopBack4 and i'm stuck at the point, that a model has to include at least one id/pk property:
I used this thread: Loopback 4: Many to Many Relation to build up the application till this point. But in that example, there is an extra id field inside the relation table. The point is, i can not alter the table due to the fact, that the database is already in use and i have to work with it.
So my code is currently looking like this:
user.model.ts
import {Entity, hasMany, model, property} from '@loopback/repository';
import {UserRole} from "./user-role.model";
@model({settings: {}})
export class User extends Entity {
@property({
type: 'number',
id: true,
required: true,
})
Id: number;
// ... all the other properties ...
@hasMany(() => UserRole, {keyTo: 'UserId'})
UserRoles?: UserRole[];
constructor(data?: Partial<User>) {
super(data);
}
}
export interface UserRelations {
// describe navigational properties here
}
export type UserWithRelations = User & UserRelations;
user-role.model.ts
import {belongsTo, Entity, model} from '@loopback/repository';
import {User} from "./user.model";
import {Role} from "./role.model";
@model({
settings: {},
name: 'UserRoles'
})
export class UserRole extends Entity
{
@belongsTo(() => User)
UserId: number;
@belongsTo(() => Role)
RoleId: number;
constructor(data?: Partial<UserRole>)
{
super(data);
}
}
export interface UserRoleRelations
{
// describe navigational properties here
}
export type UserRoleWithRelations = UserRole & UserRoleRelations;
user.repository.ts
import {DefaultCrudRepository, Filter, Getter, HasManyRepositoryFactory, Options, repository} from '@loopback/repository';
import {User, UserRelations, UserRole, UserWithRelations} from '../models';
import {MySqlDataSource} from '../datasources';
import {inject} from '@loopback/core';
import {UserRoleRepository} from "./user-role.repository";
export class UserRepository extends DefaultCrudRepository<User, typeof User.prototype.Id, UserRelations>
{
public readonly UserRoles: HasManyRepositoryFactory<UserRole, typeof UserRole.prototype.UserId>;
constructor(
@inject('datasources.MySQL') dataSource: MySqlDataSource,
@repository.getter('UserRoleRepository') getUserRoleRepository: Getter<UserRoleRepository>)
{
super(User, dataSource);
this.UserRoles = this.createHasManyRepositoryFactoryFor('UserRoles', getUserRoleRepository);
}
async find(filter?: Filter<User>, options?: Options): Promise<UserWithRelations[]>
{
// Prevent juggler for applying "include" filter
// Juggler is not aware of LB4 relations
const include = filter && filter.include;
filter = {...filter, include: undefined};
const result = await super.find(filter, options);
const includeRelations = include ? include.map(x => x.relation) : [];
// poor-mans inclusion resolver, this should be handled by DefaultCrudRepo
// and use `inq` operator to fetch related roles in fewer DB queries
// this is a temporary implementation, please see
// https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-next/issues/3195
if(includeRelations.includes('Roles'))
{
await Promise.all(result.map(async u =>
{
u.UserRoles = await this.UserRoles(u.Id).find();
}));
}
return result;
}
}
What do i have to do, to get the Roles assigned to the user? As far as i understand, i need to build up the hasMany-Relation. But the loopback cli is breaking with the error from above and i do not see, what i have to do now.