.random() API Call for ORM

[rdegges]

Hi all, started using loopback recently, and am loving it.

One thing I'd love to see is a .random() model method. It'd be nice to occasionally select a random item from the datababase.

I know that in active record / Django / most other ORMs, it's possible to execute these sort of queries in different ways, and I figured it'd be worth a github issue.

Best,

-Randall

[NickvdMeij]

+1 would love to see this as a buildin feature!

[triniwiz]

👍 same here

[SyRenity]

+1

[pmoelgaard]

+1

[pmoelgaard]

for what it's worth, I solved it on my side by creating a mixin, it's by far the easiest way... I'm right now only using MySQL, so didn't add support for other connectors, but it would be easily done...

https://gist.github.com/pmoelgaard/bf1091d5827e85d5a27f

[go1dfish]

+1

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