Ember.js: How to get an array of model IDs from a corresponding array of model attributes - ember.js

For a Tag model that I have in Ember-Data, I have 4 records in my store:
Tags:
id tag_name
1 Writing
2 Reading-Comprehension
3 Biology
4 Chemistry
In my code I have an array of tag_names, and I want to get a corresponding array of tag IDs. I'm having 2 problems:
My server is being queried even though I have these tags in my store. When I call store.find('tag', {tag_name: tag_name}), I didn't expect to need a call to the server. Here is all the code I'm using to attempt to create an array of IDs.
var self = this;
var tagsArray = ["Writing", "Reading-Comprehension", "Chemistry"];
var tagIdArr = []
tagsArray.forEach(function(tag_name) {
return self.store.find('tag', { tag_name: tag_name }).then(function(tag) {
tagIdArr.pushObject(tag.get('content').get('0').get('id'));
})
})
return tagIdArr;
When I console.log the output of the above code gives me an empty array object with length 0. Clicking on the caret next to the empty array shows three key-value pairs with the correct data. But the array is empty. I'm sure there is a simple explanation for this behavior, but I'm not sure why this is. I've used code similar to the above in other places successfully.

Find hits the server, but peek does not.
var tagsArray = ["Writing", "Reading-Comprehension", "Chemistry"];
return this.store.peekAll('tag').filter(function(tag){
return tagsArray.indexOf(tag) !== -1;
}).mapBy('id');
See: http://emberjs.com/blog/2015/06/18/ember-data-1-13-released.html#toc_reorganized-find-methods

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SAPUI5 - Input error on growing list, logic issue

I am having an issue with a growing list. Previously I had a normal list, but as it is limited to displaying 100 items, I need to now change this to a growing list, which works fine now and I can get over 100 items loaded when I've put the growing="true" growingThreshold="50" growingScrollToLoad="false" properties on the list.
But now I have an issue with one of the number inputs in the custom list, when entering a number it is not staying set (it has a liveChange event that updates a text component).
I've set a breakpoint in the controller to test and it seems to bug out when I am trying to set the data changes (red arrow on attached image).
Can anyone see the issue with the logic? If any additional code snippets are required I could provide them.
onReceivedQuantityChange: function (oEvent) {
// get model and data
var oModel = this.getOrderModel();
var oData = oModel.getData();
// get item from path
var oItem = this._getOrderItemByPath(oEvent.getSource().getBindingContext(this.MODEL_ORDERS).getPath());
// set received value
oItem._ReceivedValue = oEvent.getParameters().newValue * (oItem.ValuationPrice / oItem.Quantity);
// apply data changes
oModel.setData(oData);
},
Controller code image
onReceivedQuantityChange: function (oEvent) {
var oModel = this.getOrderModel()
var sItemPath = oEvent.getSource().getBindingContext(this.MODEL_ORDERS).getPath()
var iValuationPrice = oModel.getProperty(sItemPath + '/ValuationPrice')
var iQuantity = oModel.getProperty(sItemPath + '/Quantity')
var iNewValue = oEvent.getParameters().newValue
var iReceivedValue = iNewValue * (iValuationPrice / iQuantity)
oModel.setProperty(sItemPath + '/_ReceivedValue', iReceivedValue)
}
If you use setProperty() on the Model you're only chaning the specific Property in DataModel and Sapui5 is able to proceed bindingchanges on this Property only (and not the whole model).
If you get the data out of the model by getData() you are only getting a reference to this Object. If you change something on this Object, you don't have to set it back by setData() (it is already there because you used the reference of this Object).
But Sapui5 need to know that there was a specific change in datamodel and this is done by using setProperty()

Deleting hasMany record and saving with ember-data

I have a jsbin setup with my issue:
http://emberjs.jsbin.com/sovub/3/edit
From my example, in certain situations when I try to delete a subtitle and then save, I get the error:
Attempted to handle event `pushedData` on <App.Subtitle:ember563:7> while in state root.deleted.uncommitted.
If I delete the last subtitle then save, it's fine. But deleting the first subtitle, or deleting and adding new records then saving gives me the error message.
Is it because I'm manually setting the IDs for each subtitle during extractSingle, like so:
extractSingle: function(store, type, payload, id){
var list = payload.list
var nid = 6
// extra subtitles
var subs = list.subtitles
list.subtitles = []
subs.forEach(function(item){
item.id = nid++
list.subtitles.push(item.id)
item.list = list.id
})
// do the same for links
payload = { list: list, subtitle: subs, link: li}
return this._super(store, type, payload, id)
},
I've also noticed that the subtitles attribute of the payload in extractSingle doesn't contain the correct model whenever the error is thrown. Instead, it contains only the ID of the subtitle record.
// normally
id: "532",
subtitles: Array[2]
0: Class
__ember1403240151252: "ember562"
__ember1403240151252_meta: Object
// rest of data
1: Class
__ember1403240151252: "ember563"
__ember1403240151252_meta: Object
__nextSuper: undefined
// rest of data
// when error is thrown
id: "532",
subtitles: Array[1]
0: 6
length: 1
__proto__: Array[0]
I'm not really sure as how I should approach this, let alone resolve it. Any help would be appreciated.
I did some more research and found out about DS.RootState ( http://emberjs.com/api/data/classes/DS.RootState.html) which is related to the state root.deleted.uncommitted error I was getting.
To solve it, all I did was dematerialize the record after deleting it:
var model = this.get('model')
model.deleteRecord()
this.store.dematerializeRecord(model)
This removed the records indexes (and relationships?) so it was properly deleted.

How would I modify this ember.js function to return an Enumerable or Array

I have just begun learning ember.js, I have followed some tutorials and created a working example here:
App.Track.reopenClass({
find: function() {
var tracks = [];
$.ajax({
url: 'http://ws.spotify.com/lookup/1/.jsonuri=spotify:album:6J6nlVu4JMveJz0YM9zDgL&extras=track',
dataType: 'json',
context: this,
success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
$.each(data.album.tracks, function(index, value) {
track_id = value.href.replace("spotify:track:", "");
tracks.addObject(App.Track.create(value));
// I would rather do something like:
// tracks[track_id] = App.Track.create(value)
});
}
})
return tracks;
}
});
This function hits an API and loops through the returned data to populate the tracks object (tracks.addObject(App.Track.create(value));) and return it.
Rather than getting an ordinary object back from this function, I would like to get an Enumerable / Array so I can manipulate it with filterProperty or pull out tracks by id (There is a track_id which I would like to use as the array index).
All of my attempts to use an array have broken ember's magical ability to update the view when the ajax call populates the tracks.
Can anyone modify http://jsfiddle.net/ZEzwn/ to return an Enumerable (preferably an Array) but still update the view automatically?
As your method already returns an Array (because you have Ember prototype extension enabled), doing:
var tracks = [];
is equivalent to
var tracks = Ember.A();
On ajax request success, you're just populating the array, so you could use Ember.Array methods like filterProperty.
Just one thing about using id as array key, you really SHOULD NOT, as Ryan Bigg says in its blog:
However, if the variant’s id is [something a little higher, like] 1,013,589,413, then you start to run into problems.
In that case, JavaScript would create a one billion, thirteen million, five hundred and eighty-nine thousand, four hundred and fourteen element array. All to store one value in, right at the end.
Ok this is now working, as louiscoquio pointed out, tracks IS an enumerable object and I can do stuff like
tracks.filterProperty('href', 'spotify:track:7x7F7xBqXqr0L9wqJ3tuQW')
tracks.getEach('name')
tracks.get('firstObject')

Adding item to filtered result from ember-data

I have a DS.Store which uses the DS.RESTAdapter and a ChatMessage object defined as such:
App.ChatMessage = DS.Model.extend({
contents: DS.attr('string'),
roomId: DS.attr('string')
});
Note that a chat message exists in a room (not shown for simplicity), so in my chat messages controller (which extends Ember.ArrayController) I only want to load messages for the room the user is currently in:
loadMessages: function(){
var room_id = App.getPath("current_room.id");
this.set("content", App.store.find(App.ChatMessage, {room_id: room_id});
}
This sets the content to a DS.AdapterPopulatedModelArray and my view happily displays all the returned chat messages in an {{#each}} block.
Now it comes to adding a new message, I have the following in the same controller:
postMessage: function(contents) {
var room_id = App.getPath("current_room.id");
App.store.createRecord(App.ChatMessage, {
contents: contents,
room_id: room_id
});
App.store.commit();
}
This initiates an ajax request to save the message on the server, all good so far, but it doesn't update the view. This pretty much makes sense as it's a filtered result and if I remove the room_id filter on App.store.find then it updates as expected.
Trying this.pushObject(message) with the message record returned from App.store.createRecord raises an error.
How do I manually add the item to the results? There doesn't seem to be a way as far as I can tell as both DS.AdapterPopulatedModelArray and DS.FilteredModelArray are immutable.
so couple of thoughts:
(reference: https://github.com/emberjs/data/issues/190)
how to listen for new records in the datastore
a normal Model.find()/findQuery() will return you an AdapterPopulatedModelArray, but that array will stand on its own... it wont know that anything new has been loaded into the database
a Model.find() with no params (or store.findAll()) will return you ALL records a FilteredModelArray, and ember-data will "register" it into a list, and any new records loaded into the database will be added to this array.
calling Model.filter(func) will give you back a FilteredModelArray, which is also registered with the store... and any new records in the store will cause ember-data to "updateModelArrays", meaning it will call your filter function with the new record, and if you return true, then it will stick it into your existing array.
SO WHAT I ENDED UP DOING: was immediately after creating the store, I call store.findAll(), which gives me back an array of all models for a type... and I attach that to the store... then anywhere else in the code, I can addArrayObservers to those lists.. something like:
App.MyModel = DS.Model.extend()
App.store = DS.Store.create()
App.store.allMyModels = App.store.findAll(App.MyModel)
//some other place in the app... a list controller perhaps
App.store.allMyModels.addArrayObserver({
arrayWillChange: function(arr, start, removeCount, addCount) {}
arrayDidChange: function(arr, start, removeCount, addCount) {}
})
how to push a model into one of those "immutable" arrays:
First to note: all Ember-Data Model instances (records) have a clientId property... which is a unique integer that identifies the model in the datastore cache whether or not it has a real server-id yet (example: right after doing a Model.createRecord).
so the AdapterPopulatedModelArray itself has a "content" property... which is an array of these clientId's... and when you iterate over the AdapterPopulatedModelArray, the iterator loops over these clientId's and hands you back the full model instances (records) that map to each clientId.
SO WHAT I HAVE DONE
(this doesn't mean it's "right"!) is to watch those findAll arrays, and push new clientId's into the content property of the AdapterPopulatedModelArray... SOMETHING LIKE:
arrayDidChange:function(arr, start, removeCount, addCount){
if (addCount == 0) {return;} //only care about adds right now... not removes...
arr.slice(start, start+addCount).forEach(function(item) {
//push clientId of this item into AdapterPopulatedModelArray content list
self.getPath('list.content').pushObject(item.get('clientId'));
});
}
what I can say is: "its working for me" :) will it break on the next ember-data update? totally possible
For those still struggling with this, you can get yourself a dynamic DS.FilteredArray instead of a static DS.AdapterPopulatedRecordArray by using the store.filter method. It takes 3 parameters: type, query and finally a filter callback.
loadMessages: function() {
var self = this,
room_id = App.getPath('current_room.id');
this.store.filter(App.ChatMessage, {room_id: room_id}, function (msg) {
return msg.get('roomId') === room_id;
})
// set content only after promise has resolved
.then(function (messages) {
self.set('content', messages);
});
}
You could also do this in the model hook without the extra clutter, because the model hook will accept a promise directly:
model: function() {
var self = this,
room_id = App.getPath("current_room.id");
return this.store.filter(App.ChatMessage, {room_id: room_id}, function (msg) {
return msg.get('roomId') === room_id;
});
}
My reading of the source (DS.Store.find) shows that what you'd actually be receiving in this instance is an AdapterPopulatedModelArray. A FilteredModelArray would auto-update as you create records. There are passing tests for this behaviour.
As of ember.data 1.13 store.filter was marked for removal, see the following ember blog post.
The feature was made available as a mixin. The GitHub page contains the following note
We recommend that you refactor away from using this addon. Below is a short guide for the three filter use scenarios and how to best refactor each.
Why? Simply put, it's far more performant (and not a memory leak) for you to manage filtering yourself via a specialized computed property tailored specifically for your needs

SimpleGeo and Google Maps

I'm trying to do something I thought would be simple. Query SimpleGeo, take the json and show the points on a google map.
The logic is as follows:
User views a page about a location stored in the Django DB with a simple google map. That map has one point showing the location.
User clicks show hotels
jQuery retrives json from SimpleGeo for a given lat/long
jQuery updates google map with points for hotes around that location.
Problems I'm having;
The json comes back with several entires. I've tried several looping functions but couldn't get anything but null. So then I just say json_ob[0] and I get one listing, but I can't get the cords from the json and show them on the map. Gmaps keeps compaining about the cords are not vaild. I've used alert() to check them but they seem to be the same format as the initial ones for the map.
I've also tried processing the json in my view and sending just the lat and long to the template but that doesn't seem to work either.
A link to a example or tutorial would be great.
I have here some
var obj = jQuery.parseJSON('{{ near_geo|safe }}');
cords = obj.geometry.coordinates
cords_array = cords.toString().split(',')
lng = cords_array[0];
lat = cords_array[1];
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
map: map,
position: [lat , lng]
});
That produces:
Invalid value for property : 32.929272,-83.741676
If I could just get one to show up then I can loop and get the rest.
try to replace
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
map: map,
position: [lat , lng]
});
with
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
map: map,
position: new google.maps.LatLng(lat, lng);
});