Monthly Milestone - February 2020 💝 🔆 ☕️

[dhmlau]

Overview

• continue to focus on the migration guide: general runtime and authentication+authorization

Goals

• [ ] Migration guide between LB3 and LB4 MVP #453

  • [ ] 🏃How to migrate CRUD Operation Hooks #3952
  • [ ] 🏃How to migrate model mixins #3951
  • [x] Spike: how to import LB3 models extending a custom base model #3813
  • [x] 🏃 [migration/auth] Migrate https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-example-access-control to LB4

    4520

• [x] Tooling around migration

  • [x] 🏃LB3 model import: preserve connector-specific metadata in property definitions #3810

• [x] Create models & REST APIs dynamically at runtime

  • [x] 🏃Dynamic binding/rebinding of controllers after app start #433

• [x] Shopping app web site

  • [x] Shopping App Website: Installation/setup documentation https://github.com/strongloop/loopback4-example-shopping/issues/477

• [x] Miscellaneous

  • [x] API Explorer ignores filter options where, fields, and order #2208
  • [x] npm test hangs infinitly on windows #4425
  • [x] Run shared tests from both v3 and v4 of juggler https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-connector-db2/issues/133
  • [x] Add CrudRestApiBuilder to @loopback/rest-crud #3737
  • [x] Column names in lowercase using lb4 discover method - SQL connector #3343

• PR reviews:

  • [x] feat: adds @deprecated convenience decorator #4415
  • [ ] feat: adds utility launch for debugging a single test file #4432
  • [x] Preserve custom type of auto-generated id property #4270
  • [x] feat(extension-logging): add integration with winston and fluentd logging #4117

Stretch Goals

• CI

  • [x] :running: [CI] Postgresql downstream tests failed https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-datasource-juggler/issues/1816
  • [x] [DashDB] Run shared tests from both v3 and v4 of juggler https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-connector-dashdb/issues/79

• Bug fixes

  • [ ] :running: Belongs-To relation tries to resolve for foreign key NULL #4372
  • [ ] ~Log extension is not printing any logs #2173~ Out of scope for Q1

• Migration guide between LB3 and LB4 MVP #453

  • [ ] Migration Guide: Discuss life cycle differences between LB3 and LB4

    3935

  • [ ] Which official LB3 components are not planned in LB4 #3956

• [ ] ~APIC Integration #4516~

  • [ ] ~[Spike] End to End test Shopping example in cloud with APIConnect

    4498~ Out of scope for Feb. After discussion with team and APIC team, we may not need this.

Looking for community contributions

Community contributors: Want to contribute but don't know where to start? Here is our wish list for this month:

• [ ] Add bearer auth scheme as the default security scheme #4386
• [ ] :running: Add OpenAPI enhancer service in @loopback/rest #4380
• [ ] Sugar decorators for Filter and Where parameters #1749
• [ ] Model.toObject() should preserve prototypes (e.g. Date and ObjectID values) #3607

[dhmlau]

Moved the slipped tasks to March. Closing Feb milestone. Thanks.