Strongloop with Emberjs - ember.js

Question

Ember Data's REST Adapter accepts the JSON from the server in this format:
Taken from the documentation: http://guides.emberjs.com/v1.10.0/models/the-rest-adapter/
{
"post": {
"id": 1,
"title": "Node is not omakase",
"comments": [1, 2, 3]
},
"comments": [{
"id": 1,
"body": "But is it _lightweight_ omakase?"
},
{
"id": 2,
"body": "I for one welcome our new omakase overlords"
},
{
"id": 3,
"body": "Put me on the fast track to a delicious dinner"
}]
}
Is it possible to have this kind of JSON format back from strongloop?

Answer 1

Remote methods are not the best solution because they are per model, and thus not DRY.
You can make Ember-data compatible with Strongloop's loopback api by using the DS.RESTAdapter with DS.JSONSerializer like this:
// app/adapters/application.js
import DS from 'ember-data';
export default DS.RESTAdapter.extend({
host: 'http://loopback-api-host',
namespace: 'api',
defaultSerializer: 'JSONSerializer'
});
http://emberjs.com/api/data/classes/DS.JSONSerializer.html
"In Ember Data, the logic for communicating with a backend data store lives in the Adapter. Ember Data's Adapter has some built-in assumptions of how a REST API should look. If your backend conventions differ from these assumptions Ember Data makes it easy to change its functionality by swapping out or extending the default Adapter."
http://guides.emberjs.com/v2.0.0/models/customizing-adapters/
Similar question:
Making Loopback API Ember.js compatible

Answer 2

By default the out-of-box restful api endpoints would return something that looks more like:
{
"id": 1,
"title": "Node is not omakase",
"comments": [
{
"id": 1,
"body": "But is it _lightweight_ omakase?"
},
{
"id": 2,
"body": "I for one welcome our new omakase overlords"
},
{
"id": 3,
"body": "Put me on the fast track to a delicious dinner"
}
]
}
But you can use remote methods to do the same work and then massage the data into the way you want it to be returned. http://docs.strongloop.com/display/public/LB/Remote+methods