Implement a helper functions in base Connector class to process index and foreign-key definitions in an unified way and convert them into data suitable for consumption by connector implementations. The helpers should gather both model-level and property-level definitions, apply database/connector-specific options, merge keys/properties fields in index definitions, etc. and produce a final definition that can be directly mapped to database commands.
Create follow-up tasks to leverage the new helper in our NoSQL connectors and thus let the connectors understand the new FK/INDEX definition syntax. One GH issue per connector please.
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This is a follow-up task for the proposal outlined in https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-next/issues/2712.
Implement a helper functions in base
Connector
class to process index and foreign-key definitions in an unified way and convert them into data suitable for consumption by connector implementations. The helpers should gather both model-level and property-level definitions, apply database/connector-specific options, merge keys/properties fields in index definitions, etc. and produce a final definition that can be directly mapped to database commands.See
_SPIKE_.md
in https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-next/pull/2712 for the full description of index/PK definition syntax.This is a prerequisite for implementation of indexes & foreign keys in other connectors, most notably memory connector (https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-next/issues/2333) and
SqlConnector
(https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-connector-rest/issues/135)Acceptance criteria