Loopback-advancedmodel

Improved model component for Loopback version 3.x

Features

• Async & Await support
• Register multiple validators on one property at once.
• Better generic errors handler.
• Object-oriented descriptor for OpenAPI (Swagger 2.0).
• Basic ACLs management support

Getting Started

This package is available in the Node Package Repository and can be easily installed with npm or yarn.

$ npm i loopback-advancedmodel
# or
$ yarn add loopback-advancedmodel

Usage example

Setup your loopback project as usual and then start writing a new model (for example User).

Require the advancedmodel class from the package and use it as follow :

const advancedmodel = require('loopback-advancedmodel');

// Create your User Model
const User = new advancedmodel().disableAllMethods();

async function sayHello() {
    return "hello world!";
}
// Register the Asynchronous method sayHello on User model and Get the OpenAPI Descriptor Object.
const OpenAPIDescriptor = User.registerRemoteMethod(sayHello);

// Setup classical OpenAPI informations about our REST Endpoint.
OpenAPIDescriptor.get('/sayHello').returns({ type: 'string' });

// Export the User model
module.exports = User.export();

API

Find all documentation on the wiki section right here

License

MIT