What relation should exist between a user model and team model?

[Jackson Vaughan]

Hi, 

I've been reading through the documentation and am fairly confused on what the suggested relation should be for my use case (which I consider to be somewhat standard).

I have two user models - `users` and `teams`

These are the requirements:

- A user can have (be the owner) of multiple teams

- A team can have multiple members (users)

So far, I've set it up so that teams have a belongsTo relation with users as such:

"owner": {

"type": "belongsTo",

"model": "user",

"foreignKey": "",

"options": {

"nestRemoting": false

}

}

This seems to work as expected; a user can create a team, etc. 

For the members relationship however, I can't figure out what the right relation would be. If I do a `hasMany` relation for example, I can't add existing users to the team... Would a `hasAndBelongsToMany` relation make sense? That however seems to require a join model that I'd need to apply or create somehow. When I implement the following, it throws an error saying the database does not exist if I try to add a user as a member:

"members": {

"type": "hasAndBelongsToMany",

"model": "user",

"foreignKey": "",

"options": {

"nestRemoting": false

}

}

 But I can't find much documentation on it, only this unresolved issue: https://github.com/strongloop/loopback/issues/1960

Any help would be much appreciated!

[Samrita Sen Bakshi]

This should help Since owner is the user and so are the other team memebers hence you can make a relation in owner model namely teamOwner .

//In owner model

"properties":{

"teamOwner": {

"type": "string",

"required": false

}

},

"relations":{

"members": {

"type": "hasMany",

"model": "owner",

"foreignKey": "teamOwner"

}

}

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Regards,

Samrita Sen Bakshi

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