hasAndBelongsToMany self-relation

[Itay Shoshani]

Hello, I've seen this question and I have the exact same issue:
https://github.com/strongloop/loopback/issues/537

My question is almost identical to the question that were asked in the link:
I have Article model which has related_articles in it, when one article 1 is related to article 2, article 2 must be related to article 1 as well.

this structure is a bit similar to facebook friends, if someone is my friend, therefore I'm his friend too. Is that possible to do with loopback's relation system?

thank you.

[yotam shalev]

Hi Itay, 

I have the same issue. Did you find a solution?

[aquid raza rahman]

Hi,

You should be using HasMany thorugh relation for self relationship, but there's a tweak for that. You might have to add an extra parameter named as `keyThrough ` for self referencing.

You can see the example here: 

https://docs.strongloop.com/display/public/LB/HasManyThrough+relations#HasManyThroughrelations-Selfthrough

Thanks