Loopback extending built in User model issues

Question

I am inheriting the builtin User model in my own Customer model. The Customer model is having extra parameters like first-name, last-name etc. To create an User and Customer I am using the following code:

// create a Customer
        User.create({
            email: email,
            password: userPassword,
            cellnumber: cellDetails.cellnumber
        },
            function (error, userDet) {

I get an id in response to this call: 59c4c5845dc8de4730645963. But when I am trying to get the account by id i.e. accounts/{id} and pass it the above id, it gives the following error:

the "Unknown \"customer\" id \"59c4c5845dc8de4730645963\"."

So this means that id of the User model and Customer model are somehow not same. How do I resolve this ? Also, in the mongo db database all the properties are getting visible under the User model and not under the Customer model. What am I doing wrong here ? Could anyone let me know.

Thanks

Answer 1

I believe you should create like this: Account.create({ email, password, ... }) , using the Account model rather than User model.

You should use the model you created document with, Account in this case. The thing is, each model works only with it's own MongoDB collection and they are isolated from each other.