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Loopback data denormalization

I have 2 models. One is an Article (content, category), and the other is Category (id, name).

In Article I have defined relation to Category.

"categories": {
  "type": "hasOne",
  "model": "Category",
  "foreignKey": "category"
}

I insert new Product with category id in category field.

Now, when I get the Articles over REST API I would like to receive category name instead of category Id. I wanted to figure it out based on documentation, but failed.

I use MySQL relational DB.

How can I achieve that?

Solution

  • You need to use the include filter https://docs.strongloop.com/display/public/LB/Include+filter

    In your case:

    /articles?filter[include]=categories