Create / Update multiple objects from one API response - ember.js

Question

all new jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/vJxvc/2/
Currently, i query an api that will return JSON like this. The API cannot be changed for now, which is why I need to work around that.
[
{"timestamp":1406111961, "values":[1236.181, 1157.695, 698.231]},
{"timestamp":1406111970, "values":[1273.455, 1153.577, 693.591]}
]
(could be a lot more lines, of course)
As you can see, each line has a timestamp and then an array of values. My problem is, that i would actually like to transpose that. Looking at the first line alone:
{"timestamp":1406111961, "values":[1236.181, 1157.695, 698.231]}
It contains a few measurements taken at the same time. This would need to become this in my ember project:
{
"sensor_id": 1, // can be derived from the array index
"timestamp": 1406111961,
"value": 1236.181
},
{
"sensor_id": 2,
"timestamp": 1406111961,
"value": 1157.695
},
{
"sensor_id": 3,
"timestamp": 1406111961,
"value": 698.231
}
And those values would have to be pushed into the respective sensor models.
The transformation itself is trivial, but i have no idea where i would put it in ember and how i could alter many ember models at the same time.

Answer 1

you could make your model an array and override the normalize method on your adapter. The normalize method is where you do the transformation, and since your json is an array, an Ember.Array as a model would work.

Answer 2

I am not a ember pro but looking at the manual I would think of something like this:
a = [
{"timestamp":1406111961, "values":[1236.181, 1157.695, 698.231]},
{"timestamp":1406111970, "values":[1273.455, 1153.577, 693.591]}
];
b = [];
a.forEach(function(item) {
item.values.forEach(function(value, sensor_id) {
b.push({
sensor_id: sensor_id,
timestamp: item.timestamp,
value: value
});
});
});
console.log(b);
Example http://jsfiddle.net/kRUV4/
Update
Just saw your jsfiddle... You can geht the store like this: How to get Ember Data's "store" from anywhere in the application so that I can do store.find()?