Extending built-in User model

[Jens Winter]

Hello there,

I can't manage to extend the user model. I want to add a remote method "loginWithFacebook" but it doesn't show up in explorer. I used the Tweet model from https://github.com/belibasakis/loopback-example-ionic and its greet method as a template. But there has to be something different, as it still does not work.

module.exports = function (User) {

    User.loginWithFacebook = function (cb) {
        cb(null, 'Login with Facebook');
    };

    User.remoteMethod(
        'loginWithFacebook',
        {
            http: {verb: 'post'}
        }
    );

};

Any clues here?

Thanks in advance,
Jens

[Yaraslau Kurmyza]

Hi Jens,

Your code is perfectly valid.

The problem might be, that you have to extend base User model with your own one, and extend with remotes the new one, instead.

What I have in model-config.json:

 "User": {
   "dataSource": "mainDb",
   "public": false
 },
 "user": {
   "dataSource": "mainDb",
   "public": true
 },

and common/models/user.json:

{
 "name": "user",
 "base": "User",
 "idInjection": true,
...
}

And then putting your code in common/models/user.js will work.

P.S. Not sure where I read about this.

The only drawback I've noticed with this approach, is that using relational databases, it creates both tables: User and user
With mongo, you'll stay with one table user

[Jens Winter]

Thank you, Yaraslau!