Monthly Milestone - April 2019 🌿🐰☔️

[dhmlau]

April milestone

• Model relation - referential integrity
• Migration
• Review and triaging including the community PRs

LoopBack 4

• Authentication Authentication and Authorization extension points #1035
  • Add abstraction for authentication strategy, Add abstraction for authentication strategy #2466
• Migration- Mount LB3 app in LB4, [EPIC] Mount LB3 app in LB4 #2479
  • Docs: request-handling pipeline Docs: request-handling pipeline #2390.
  • Boot and mount LB3 app Boot and mount LB3 app #2391
• Model Relations - Referential integrity
  • Spike: declarative definition of FOREIGN KEY and UNIQUE constraints Spike: Declarative definition of FOREIGN KEY and UNIQUE constraints #2606
• Model Relations - Inclusion of related models Inclusion of related models [MVP] #1352
  • Fix repository-json-schema to handle circular references Fix repository-json-schema to handle circular references #2628
• Fix CI
  • Fix CI for loopback-connector-mongodb: Fix CI on OPERATOR_NOT_ALLOWED_IN_QUERY loopback-connector-mongodb#503
  • Fix CI for loopback-connector-couchdb2: Fix CI loopback-connector-couchdb2#60
• Review PRs
  • Extensibility PRs
    • feat(core): introduce basic life cycle support for LoopBack applications, feat(core): introduce basic life cycle support for LoopBack applications #1928
    • feat(context): support binding config and @inject.config, feat(context): add support for binding configuration and injection #2259
    • feat(events): add basic async events support, feat(events): add basic async events support #1972 DEFERRED
  • Community PRs
    • feat(cli): add lb4 relation command feat(cli): add lb4 relation command #2426
    • Model discovery: Model Discovery #2245

Stretch goal

• Model Relations - Referential integrity
  • Document hasMany/belongsTo/hasOne limitations for NoSQL databases Document hasMany/belongsTo/hasOne limitations for NoSQL databases #2340
• Authentication
  • 🚶‍♂️Refactor the authentication action to be a common one, Refactor the authentication action to be a common one. #2467
  • 🚶‍♂️Extension point for registering the non-passport based authentication strategies, Extension point for registering the authentication strategies #2312
• Bugs
  • Mongo fails to find user by id (hasMany relation not working) Mongo fails to find user by id (hasMany relation not working) #2085
• Migration
  • 🚶‍♂️Example: mount LB3 app in LB4 Example: mount LB3 app in LB4 #2392
  • Review docs for connectors to identify migration roadblocks https://github.com/strongloop-internal/scrum-apex/issues/400
• Unified web experience
  • Spike: Explore keeping the existing doc generation mechanism in LB4 site, Spike: Explore keeping the existing doc generation mechanism in LB4 site strongloop/v4.loopback.io#65
• Model Relations - Inclusion of related models Inclusion of related models [MVP] #1352
  • Allow controllers to provide definitions of models referenced in operation spec Allow controllers to provide definitions of models referenced in operation spec #2629
  • Modify Repository find* methods to include navigational properties Modify Repository find* methods to include navigational properties #2632
• Docs
  • [Docs] "Testing your application" page contains beta release information [Docs] "Testing your application" page contains beta release information #2101
  • [Docs] Update WIP section in Sequence page [Docs] Update WIP section in Sequence page #2100
• Reviews of community PRs on connectors
  • Remove port when using mongodb+srv, Remove port when using mongodb+srv loopback-connector-mongodb#497
  • Feature add foreign key on update on delete trigger config, Feature add foreign key on update on delete trigger config loopback-connector-mysql#370
• Review PRs
  • feat(context): improve @inject.setter and add @inject.binding feat(context): improve @inject.setter and add @inject.binding #2657
  • feat(context): add support for method interceptors feat(context): add support for method interceptors #2687
  • fix(cli): improve openapi code generation for naming and typing fix(cli): improve openapi code generation for naming and typing #2722
  • feat(rest): allow - to be used for path template variable names feat(rest): allow - to be used for path template variable names #2724