Loopback Post Method Call

I want to send a post request with loopback 'invokeStaticMethod'. Please help me how to do it. I want to send a POST API request to below url: localhost:3000/api/user/id/unblock Wi

Solution 1:

You could create a remote method like this:

User.unblock = function(id, userId, blockId, callback) {
  var result;
  // TODOcallback(null, result);
};

Then, the remote method definition in the json file could look like this:

"unblock":{"accepts":[{"arg":"id","type":"string","required":true,"description":"","http":{"source":"path"}},{"arg":"userId","type":"string","required":false,"description":"","http":{"source":"form"}},{"arg":"blockId","type":"string","required":false,"description":"","http":{"source":"form"}}],"returns":[{"arg":"result","type":"object","root":false,"description":""}],"description":"","http":[{"path":"/:id/unblock","verb":"post"}]}

Then your remote method would look like this:

You could play around with function arguments and use one body argument instead of 2 form arguments and read the data from there, although I believe that if there are only 2 additional parameters it's better to put them separately. But it depends on your approach.

Solution 2:

I believe this is what you are looking for...

https://loopback.io/doc/en/lb3/Adding-remote-methods-to-built-in-models.html

In your case, it should look something like this...

module.exports = function(app) {
  const User = app.models.User;

  User.unblock = function(userId, blockId, cb) {
      ... <Your logic goes here> ...
      cb(null, result);
  };

  User.remoteMethod('unblock', {
      accepts: [{arg: 'userId', type: 'string'}, {arg: 'blockId', type: 'string'}],
      returns: {arg: 'result', type: 'string'}
  });