Ember - Issue with HTTP POST request - ember.js

Question

I have written a (very) simple RESTFul Web service to retrieve data from MongoDB using Node, Express and Mongoose.
On the server side, I have this code:
router.route('/products').post(function(req,res){
var product = new Product(req.body);
product.save(function(err){
if(err)
res.send(err);
res.send({message:'Product Added'});
});
When I submit a request from my Ember client, the req.body contains something like the following:
{ attributes:
{ category: 1,
name: 'y',
price: 1,
active: false,
notes: null } }
The attribute names are exactly the same as my mongoose schema. I get no error but the document created in MongoDB is empty (just get the _id and __v fields).
What am I doing wrong. Should I convert the req.body further into ???

Answer 1

A couple things that will help debug:
1) From a quick glance (I haven't used mongoose before) it looks like call back function passed to save takes two arguments.
2) I don't know if your code got cut off, but the sample above was missing a matching });
3) I made the function short circuit itself on error, so you will not see 'Product added' unless that is truly the case.
Try these fixes.
router.route('/products').post(function(req,res){
var product = new Product(req.body);
product.save(function(err, product){
if(err){
return res.send(err);
}
return res.send({message:'Product Added'});
});
});

Answer 2

The issue was related to my lack of familiarity with Ember and Node+Express. The data received in the server is slightly different from what I had first indicated: (first line was missing)
{ product:
{ attributes:
{ category: ... } } }
On the server side I can access my data using req.body.product.attributes (instead of req.body):
router.route('/products').post(function(req,res){
var product = new Product(req.body.product.attributes);
product.save(function(err){
if(err)
res.send(err);
res.send({message:'Product Added'});
});