How to do referencesmany in loopback 4 to populate relational model data ? #7102
Description
Can you explain how to do referencesmany in loopback 4
https://loopback.io/doc/en/lb3/Embedded-models-and-relations.html#referencesmany
I wanted to store categories and its products Ids as an array in the collection. On get method I need show category info as well as product details as mentioned below .Is there any best with relational model in loopback? I am new in Loopback and node js, please suggest best practice.
Category
{
"id": "1",
"Category": "Category 1",
"products": [
"1",
"2"
]
},
{
"id": "2",
"Category": "Category 2",
"products": [
"2",
"3"
]
}
Products
{
"id": "1",
"title": "Product 1"
},
{
"id": "2",
"title": "Product 2"
},
{
"id": "3",
"title": "Product 3"
}
Result
{
"Category": "Category 1",
"products": [
{
"id": "1",
"title": "Product 1"
},
{
"id": "2",
"title": "Product 2"
}
]
},
{
"Category": "Category 2",
"products": [
{
"id": "2",
"title": "Product 2"
},
{
"id": "3",
"title": "Product 5"
}
]
}