Monthly Milestone - Aug 2019 🐟🔥🍤

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August Milestone

Goals

• Authentication

  • Create a common layer for authentication & authorization component
  • Update package.json and package-lock.json to remove passport references

• Authorization

  • PR: feat: add authorization component feat: add authorization component #1205

• Inclusion of related models. Link

  • Add findByForeignKeys helper
  • Introduce InclusionResolver concept
  • Include related models in DefaultCrudRepository
  • Test relations against databases

• Declarative support Link

  • Extension: CrudRestController <-- do this one first, then spike.
  • Spike: Booter for creating REST APIs from model files

• Bug 

  • lb4 relation doesn't allow to add belongsTo & hasMany relation with the same 2 models
  • DefaultValueHandling to Reduce JSON Size

• CI cleanup

  • 🚶Fix CI issue with loopback-connector-oracle

• Miscellaneous

  • Code review on loopback-connector-ibmi
  • throws MaxListenersExceededWarning

Stretch Goals

• Inclusion of related models
  • Implement InclusionResolver for belongsTo relation
  • 🚶Implement InclusionResolver for hasMany relation
  • Implement InclusionResolver for hasOne relation
• Juggler-Next
  • Allow connectors to be implemented as ES6 classes Moved to Q4
  • Allow connectors to use async/await Changed to be Q3 p2 item. Need to work on Q3 p1 item first.
• Authentication
  • Spike: Token based authentication in API Explorer
• Documentation improvement
  • Add diagrams for "Key Concepts" page