override ember-data's url conventions - ember.js

Question

In my ember-app I have this model:
//models/photo.js
export default DS.Model.extend({
image: DS.attr(),
title: DS.attr('string'),
caption: DS.attr('string'),
published: DS.attr('boolean')
});
Then I have to fetch data for it from a REST api; in particular the photo model should be fecthed from 2 endpoints in this way:
route /aaa --> should fetch from /photos endpoint that returns an array of all photos;
this is easy:
var photos = this.store.findAll('photo')
and ember-data will automatically call the /photos endpoint, since this follows its conventions;
route /bbb --> should fetch from /feed; the /feed REST api endpoint returns also an array of photos (same model as above) but filtered in a certain way;
in any case the it returns an array of photos objects, like the /photos endpoint;
but in this case it is not possible to do
var photos = this.store.findAll('photos')
as in the /aaa route, since doing this will tell ember-data to fetch from /photos endopoint;
How can I fetch the same model from different endpoints in different routes?
(I use ember 2.2.0 with ember-data 2.2.1)

Answer 1

You can't do that unless you're doing a plain ol ajax call and push the payload to store or patch the adapter. I wouldn't recommend messing with ember data and its adapter as it will definitely come back to bite you. What you could do is pass in a parameter and change the logic in the API controller to do a if/else check on that param and send the relevant data that you need.
Route 1 - this.store.query('photo', { type: 'png' })
Route 2 - this.store.query('photo', { type: 'jpeg' })

Answer 2

The short answer is you can't because adapters are per model, not per route.
To get around this, however, you can use a plain ajax call paired with store.push/store.pushPayload to load the data into the store.
See the store documentation for further details.