How to override models and their ACL?

[mbenaissa]

I have setup the example with success.

PB :

Now, I want to give only to the admin role to create "users"

1- Solution 1 : Copy the "User" Loopback model in common/models/ and I change it as I want. Then I configure a Grunt task that copy it again to the loopback/models/

2- Solution 2 : I use "user" model that inherit the "User" LoopBack model. I add the following ACL { "principalType": "ROLE", "principalId": "$everyone", "permission": "DENY", "property": "create" } Now my problem is : I can't create a "user" but I can create a "User".

Question :

How can I override the default model of "User" (properties, method, relations, ACL...) without copying it in my application? expl : user model : { "name":"User", "override/mix": true }

Thx

[ghost]

I think you shouldn't override build-in models but maybe if you haven't try yet you can set public to false in model-config.json like this :

"User": { "dataSource": "db", "public": false }

[wesleymilan]

Hi mbenaissa,

I'm not sure that is the best practice todo but I'm copying every .json and .js files from modules that I want to override from /node_modules/loopback/common/models/ and pasting into my common/models/ folder. But you have to copy both files, than loopback will load from your folder.

It's working for me

[faridnsh]

@wesleymilan Do note that the problem with that approach is that, when you upgrade your loopback, you have to manually update the built-in models.

[richardpringle]

Hey @mbenaissa,
for future reference, please post questions at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/loopbackjs. See https://github.com/strongloop/loopback/wiki/Questions for more details.

1- Solution 1 : Copy the "User" Loopback model in common/models/ and I change it as I want. You should not override the default User model. 2- Solution 2 : I use "user" model that inherit the "User" LoopBack model. You should extend the default User model, then it really depends on what you're trying to accomplish. By the looks of it, you just want an admin with the ability to POST users. Checkout the docs on the admin role.

Hope that helps!

[bajtos]

Possibly related: https://github.com/strongloop/loopback/issues/2270