Reflexive relation with nested data - ember.js

Question

I'm sorry if this is a basic question, but since I'm quite new to ember, I'd like to know if there is any best practice for a case like this. For example, I have the follow endpoints that returns the payloads below:
https://api.example.com/v1/user
[
{
"user": "user1",
"firstName": "Foo1",
"lastName": "Bar1",
"url": "https://api.example.com/v1/user/user1"
},
{
"user": "user2",
"firstName": "Foo2",
"lastName": "Bar2",
"url": "https://api.example.com/v1/user/user2"
}
]
And each of the "url" endpoint returns something like this:
https://api.example.com/v1/user/user1
{
"user": "user1",
"firstName": "Foo1",
"lastName": "Bar1",
"age": 21,
"address": "User1 Address"
... more info ...
}
We see that some properties in "/user" are repeated in "/user/user1".
What would be the best practice to create the "user" model?
Should I have two models? Like for example a "users" model for the "/user" and a "user" model for "/user/user1"?
Could somehow have just one model "user" that would fit both endpoints?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

This is almost the use case described in the one-to-one docs where you're defining the user data with one model and linking another model with a belongsTo attribute:
// app/models/user.js
import DS from 'ember-data';
export default DS.Model.extend({
user: DS.attr('string'),
firstName: DS.attr('string'),
lastName: DS.attr('string'),
url: DS.attr('string'),
profile: DS.belongsTo('profile')
});
then setup a profile model with any extra values you're wanting to add and define the belongsTo attribute also:
// app/models/profile.js
import DS from 'ember-data';
export default DS.Model.extend({
age: DS.attr('string'),
address: DS.attr('string'),
user: DS.belongsTo('user')
});
In your routes file you'll want to setup the user id to define your URL structure like so:
//app/router.js
Router.map(function() {
this.route('users');
this.route('user', { path: '/user/:user_id' });
});
Then finally you'll need to load the data retrieving the related records and loading them in via your route file.
// app/routes/user.js
import Route from '#ember/routing/route';
export default Route.extend({
model(params) {
return this.store.findRecord('user', params.user_id, {include: 'profile'});
}
});
It's worth pointing out that you may also need a serializer to massage the data into the format you're wanting.