Import REST API of LoopBack 3 models

[bajtos]

In https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-next/pull/3688, we introduced a new CLI command to import LB3 models to LB4 projects. The initial version imports only model definition, it does not import data-access and REST API layers.

In #2036, we are building solution for exposing model via (CRUD REST) API via declarative configuration.

Let's improve the importer to scaffold not only model definition, but also configuration of the public API.

How to build the LB4 configuration:

• Model class. This is easy to supply, we have just created the class during import.
• DataSource name. This can be tricky - how to map LB3 datasources to LB4 datasources?
• API pattern (Crud, KeyValue, etc.). In LB3, this depends on the base class used by the model: PersistedModel is for CRUD, KeyValueModel is for key-value, Model is for free-form API that we don't support in LB4 yet. We need to handle inheritance though - if Customer inherits from User which inherits from PersistedModel, then import of Customer needs to use Crud pattern.
• Base path. In LB3, this can be configured via model settings or is inferred using inflection.pluralize (see here). Fortunately, this is all resolved by the time a model is loaded at runtime, we can obtain the base path via modelCtor.http.path (see here).

Acceptance criteria

TBD - will be filled by the team.

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