feat: support regex syntax

README.md

@@ -1,3 +1,32 @@
+# Modification
+
+Added extra logic for select (left join and right outer join).
+
+    {
+        "where": {
+            "foo": "bar"
+        },
+        "leftJoin": {
+            "relationName": {
+                "relatedModelPropName": "value"
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+SQL generated will look somthing like this:
+
+    SELECT 
+        Model."id",
+        Model."foo"
+    FROM
+        "public"."model" AS Model
+    LEFT JOIN
+        "public"."relatedModel" AS RelatedModel ON RelatedModel."dependsOfRelationTypeAndForeignKey" = Model."dependsOfRelationTypeAndForeignKey"
+    WHERE
+        Model."foo" = "bar" AND RelatedModel."relatedModelPropName" = "value"
+    GROUP BY
+        Model."id"
+
 # loopback-connector-postgresql
 
 [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org/), is a popular open-source object-relational database.

lib/postgresql.js

@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ PostgreSQL.prototype.columnEscaped = function(model, property) {
         return idx == 0 ? next : idx < arr.length - 1 ? prev + '->' + next : prev + '->>' + next;
       });
   } else {
-    return this.escapeName(this.column(model, property));
+    return model + "." + this.escapeName(this.column(model, property));
   }
 };
 
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ PostgreSQL.prototype.escapeValue = function(value) {
 PostgreSQL.prototype.tableEscaped = function(model) {
   const schema = this.schema(model) || 'public';
   return this.escapeName(schema) + '.' +
-    this.escapeName(this.table(model));
+    this.escapeName(this.table(model)) + " AS " + model;
 };
 
 function buildLimit(limit, offset) {
@@ -731,6 +731,15 @@ PostgreSQL.prototype._buildWhere = function(model, where) {
         }
       } else if (operator === 'regexp' && expression instanceof RegExp) {
         // do not coerce RegExp based on property definitions
+        columnValue = expression;
+      } else if (operator === 'regexp' && !(expression instanceof RegExp)) {
+        if (expression.startsWith('/')) {
+          var lastSlash = expression.lastIndexOf("/");
+          expression = new RegExp(expression.slice(1, lastSlash), expression.slice(lastSlash + 1));
+        } else {
+          expression = new RegExp(expression);
+        }
+
         columnValue = expression;
       } else {
         columnValue = this.toColumnValue(p, expression, true);
@@ -789,6 +798,9 @@ PostgreSQL.prototype.toColumnValue = function(prop, val, isWhereClause) {
       return null;
     }
   }
+  if(typeof val == "object" && val instanceof String) {
+    val += "";
+  }
   if (prop.type === String) {
     return String(val);
   }

package.json

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
     "bluebird": "^3.4.6",
     "chalk": "^4.0.0",
     "debug": "^4.1.1",
-    "loopback-connector": "^6.0.0",
+    "loopback-connector": "https://github.com/mo-solutions/loopback-connector.git",
     "pg": "^8.0.2",
     "strong-globalize": "^6.0.0",
     "uuid": "^10.0.0"