EmbedsMany: Unable to transfer properties

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Spencer Strombotne

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Feb 25, 2015, 6:55:07 PM2/25/15

I'm creating an EmbedsMany relationship with the following code based on http://docs.strongloop.com/display/public/LB/Embedded+models+and+relations#Embeddedmodelsandrelations-Advancedexample:embedwithbelongsTo :

    var Location = app.models.location;
    var EmployeeLocation = app.models.employeeLocation;
    var Employee = app.models.employee;

    EmployeeLocation.belongsTo(Location, {
        foreignKey: 'id', // re-use the actual location id
        properties: {
            id: 'id',
            address: 'address',
            state: 'state',
            city: 'city',
            zip: 'zip'
        }, // denormalize, transfer id
        // For info on invertProperties see https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-datasource-juggler/pull/219
        options: {
            invertProperties: true
        }
    });

    Employee.embedsMany(EmployeeLocation, {
        as: 'locations',
        scope: {
            include: 'location'
        }
    });

This works and embeds locations in the employee model but get the following response from the api:

/api/employees?filter=%7B%22include%22%3A%5B%22locations%22%5D%7D

{
    "id": "54ee4c09d6f895de8d3ee978",
    "employeeLocations": [{
        "id": "54ee3efb9ed34efb826d0a72"
    }, {
        "id": "54ee4c3cd6f895de8d3ee97d"
    }],
    "locations": [{
        "id": "54ee3efb9ed34efb826d0a72",
        "location": {
            "id": "54ee3efb9ed34efb826d0a72",
            "address": "12345 Front St",
            "state": "MA",
            "city": "Freetown",
            "zip": "27513"
        }
    }, {
        "id": "54ee4c3cd6f895de8d3ee97d",
        "location": {
            "id": "54ee4c3cd6f895de8d3ee97d", 
            "address": "123 Main Str",
            "state": "TX",
            "city": "Dallas",
            "zip": "75857"
        }
    }]
}

This is great but I'd rather have:

{
    "id": "54ee4c09d6f895de8d3ee978",
    "employeeLocations": [{
        "id": "54ee3efb9ed34efb826d0a72"
    }, {
        "id": "54ee4c3cd6f895de8d3ee97d"
    }],
    "locations": [{
        "id": "54ee3efb9ed34efb826d0a72",
        "address": "12345 Front St",
        "state": "MA",
        "city": "Freetown",
        "zip": "27513"

    }, {
        "id": "54ee4c3cd6f895de8d3ee97d",
        "address": "123 Main Str",
        "state": "TX",
        "city": "Dallas",
        "zip": "75857"
    }]
}

Loopback seems to be ignoring the property and invertProperties options that I've used since the json response doesn't change if I exclude them from my model definition.