Ember-Data 1.13.X : How to request included resources? - ember.js

Question

I'm converting my app over to the new version of ember-data (1.13.5).
I'd like to be able to request a set of resources (e.g. this.store.findAll('post')), maintain the background reloading behaviour that comes out of the box, but also request that a set of related resources be included from the server.
i.e. something like:
this.store.findAll('post', { include: ["comments"] }
This can obviously be done with a query, but I'm assuming that kills all of the background reloading stuff?

Answer 1

I think what you are trying to do is sideload your comments together with the post.
I don't know how your server code for that is written, for instance in my case where I use laravel for the serverside,
I would check for the include parameter in the controller code for retrieving the post. If include comments directive has been specified, then I would take advantage of a builtin mechanism that laravel provides where you specify whether you want a model with its related models, i.e return post->with('comments');
And then with the help of a custom json serializer, you can extract the comments and add to the json for the post .
But outside of laravel, an algorithm like this would do in the serverside code for retrieving posts
Retrieve all the posts.
Check for the include parameter. If it's specified, retrieve the comments that belong to each post.
Then write code that creates a json result merging the json result for post with its comments together.