Ember data dependent keys undefined - ember.js

Question

A lot of the other posts on this topic are 2+ years old, so here goes a potentially simple question.
I am using Ember data relationships to have a 'bizinfo' record belong to a 'user' record. Seems simple, but I am having the worst time of it.
In app/models/bizinfo.js I have the line:
'ownedBy': DS.belongsTo('user')
And in my route, where I validate and then save the model, I have the following code:
user_id: Ember.computed(function(){
return `${this.get('session.data.authenticated.user_id')}`;
}),
user: Ember.computed(function(){
return this.store.findRecord('user', this.get('user_id'));
}),
model(params){
return this.store.createRecord('bizinfo', {'ownedBy': this.get('user')});
},
at this point if I go into the Ember inspector to look at the 'bizinfo' data object, I see the following under the belongsTo tab:
ownedBy : <(subclass of Ember.ObjectProxy):ember1053>
Here is the code from my submit action:
submit() {
let model = this.currentModel;
console.log(model.ownedBy);
console.log(`what does the model look like?`);
console.log(model.toJSON());
model.validate().then(({model, validations}) => {
if (validations.get('isValid')) {
this.setProperties({
showAlert: false,
isRegistered: true,
showCode: false
});
let success = (response) => {
console.log(`Server responded with ${response.toJSON()}`);
};
let failure = (response) => {
console.log(`Server responded with ${response}`);
};
model.save().then(success, failure);
} else {
this.set('showAlert', true);
}
this.set('didValidate', true);
}, (errors) => {
console.log(`errors from failed validation: ${errors}`);
});
},
So here is the result of the first console.log statement:
ComputedProperty {isDescriptor: true, _dependentKeys: undefined, _suspended: undefined, _meta: Object, _volatile: false…}
And when I look at the model.toJSON() log, I see
ownedBy: null
Can anyone see what's going wrong here? Is it the create record statement? I have tried a lot of different permutations (such as submitting just the id as the 'user' parameter.

Answer 1

findRecord will return a promise. A simple way to get around the issue is
model(params){
return this.store.findRecord('user', this.get('user_id')) .
then(ownedBy => this.store.createRecord('bizinfo', {ownedBy});
}
This will wait for the findRecord to resolve, then return a new record with the resolved value as the ownedBy property.