loopbackjs

How to ensure uniqueness of a particular field in loopback model. Like below is the model Post, I have a field genericId in it, I want it to be unique in the database, and loopback to through an error, on duplicate key insertion. { "name": "Post", "plural": "Post", "base": "PersistedModel", "properties": { "genericId": { "type": "string", "required":True }, "moderatedAt": { "type": "date" } }, "validations": [], "acls": [], "methods": [] } I have tried searching there documentation, and other examples but no success. One solution which I can think of is, to create a remoteHook for the create

I have a LoopBackJS Restful server running at: localhost:3000. At front-end side, I have a simple Angular 2 app that consumes the above APIs. Everything is working fine when: Using nodemon to run the server (root folder at my-service/api) Using npm start to run the client side (root folder at my-service/client) I can do localhost:4200 to access my app which consumes the APIs running at localhost:3000 as mentioned above. Now I built the Angular app using 'ng build --prod' and pointed the output 'dist' folder inside the server directory (my-service/api/dist). I've configured the server code to

I was using the aggregate function without any problem connecting a 3.4 mongodb. When I change to a 3.6 db, I've got the message: The 'cursor' option is required, except for aggregate with the explain argument. Sorry if it's already posted. I am unable to find any solutions In mongo 3.6 there has been changes while using aggregate you have to use cursor, unless you include the explain option, you must specify the cursor option. I faced same error as you were facing. Now you have to do it like this.aggregate( [ { $unwind : "$tags" }, {$group: {_id: '$tags', count: { $sum: 1} }}, {$sort: { count

How can i access the details of the user who raise the request from a Model Hook Comment.beforeSave = function(next,com) { //Want to add 2 more properties before saving com.added_at = new Date(); com.added_by = //How can i set the user id here ?? //In case of a Remote hook i have ctx in param and i can get user id like this ctx.req.accessToken.userId; But in Model Hook how can i do the same? next(); }; Is there any way to do this? I tried with Remote hook for main Item in the way MainItem.beforeRemote('**', function(ctx, user, next) { if(ctx.methodString == 'leave_request.prototype.__create_

I'm doing research on loopback and was wondering if it's possible to save to multiple models from one request. Say.. an Post has many Tags with many Images. A user form would have the following: Post Title Post Description Tag Names (A multi field. E.g.: ['Sci-Fi', 'Fiction', 'BestSeller'] Image File (Hoping to process the file uploaded to AWS, maybe with skipper-s3?) How would I be able to persist on multiple models like this? Is this something you do with a hook? You can create RemoteMethods in a Model, which can define parameters, so in your example you could create something like this in