How to use one to many relations in loopback 4?

LoopBack 4 provides support for defining one-to-many relationships between models, allowing you to easily represent the relationship between related entities in your application. To define a one-to-many relationship in LoopBack 4, you can use the @hasMany decorator on the source model to specify the target model and the foreign key property.

Here is an example of defining a one-to-many relationship between a User model and a Post model:

import {model, property, hasMany} from '@loopback/repository';

@model()
export class User extends Entity {
    // Other properties go here...

    @hasMany(() => Post)
    posts: Post[];
}

@model()
export class Post extends Entity {
    // Other properties go here...

    @property({
        type: 'string',
        id: true,
    })
    id: string;

    @property({
        type: 'string',
        required: true,
    })
    userId: string;
}

In this example, the User model is the source model.

Once you have defined a one-to-many relationship between two models in LoopBack 4, you can use the related model’s repository in your controller methods to access and manipulate the related entities. For example, if you have a User model and a Post model with a one-to-many relationship, you can use the UserRepository and PostRepository in your controller to create, read, update, and delete users and their related posts.

Here is an example of a controller method that creates a new user and associated posts:

import {repository} from '@loopback/repository';
import {UserRepository, PostRepository} from '../repositories';
import {User, Post} from '../models';

export class UserController {
    constructor(
        @repository(UserRepository)
        private userRepository: UserRepository,
        @repository(PostRepository)
        private postRepository: PostRepository,
    ) {}

    async createUserAndPosts(user: User, posts: Post[]): Promise<void> {
        // Create the user
        const savedUser = await this.userRepository.create(user);

        // Create the associated posts
        const savedPosts = await this.postRepository.createAll(posts.map(post => ({
            ...post,
            userId: savedUser.id,
        })));

        // Add the saved posts to the user object
        savedUser.posts = savedPosts;
        await this.userRepository.save(savedUser);
    }
}

In this example, the createUserAndPosts method is used to create a new user and the associated posts. It first creates the user using the UserRepository, and then creates the posts using the PostRepository. The userId property of the posts is set to the ID of the newly created user. The saved posts are then added to the user object and saved using the UserRepository.

This is just one example of how you can use a one-to-many relationship in a controller method. You can modify the code as needed to suit your specific needs and requirements.

Official Doc: https://loopback.io/doc/en/lb4/HasMany-relation.html