Ember data: interpolated pluralization of model name - ember.js

Say I have a DS.Store model called "userPreferences". Say I have a backend API returning a SINGLE "userPreferences" record:
{"userPreferences":{"userID":"7","latitude":null,"longitude":null}}
Say I have a route that I want to use this model with:
App.SettingsRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
model: function() {
myModel = this.store.find('userPreferences', 7);
return myModel;
}
});
If I try to do this, I get the following error from ember:
Error: No model was found for 'userPreference'
How do I specify that I'm already returning the singular form?

If you don't ever plan to refer to a collection of userPreferences, as Steve H. suggested you might need to, you can define the phrase as uncountable:
Ember.Inflector.inflector.uncountable('userPreferences');
Just be careful, you might need to also define:
Ember.Inflector.inflector.uncountable('user_preferences');
Because at present the inflector doesn't assume that you want both defined. The underscore version is sometimes used by ember-data when referring to model properties during serialization. I always define both camelCase and underscore versions.
I've opened an issue about this on ember-inflector.

What do you plan to call a collection of userPreferences? Here, I'm calling them "manyUserPreferences", but I'd suggest something better :) You can customize the way Ember understands the model names using an Inflector:
Ember.Inflector.inflector.irregular('userPreferences', 'manyUserPreferences');

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How to retrieve the same model from another REST url in EmberJS

The models tree of my emberJS app match the tree of my API however, I have 2 different routes returning the same type of data :
/products/ and /users/:id/supported_products/ both return products data.
When I need to have the products of the app there is no problem :
this.store.query('product',params);
However I am not sure how to query products from the user path. The place to do so would be the adapter, but I need to define a secondary adapter that I would call when I need supported products,and I have no idea how to do so.
I think if it were me I would create a virtual query parameter that would instruct a custom adapter on how to change the endpoint on the fly.
For example I might have a supportedByUser flag. Then in my app/adapters/product.js do something like this:
import JSONAPIAdapter from 'ember-data/adapters/json-api';
export default JSONAPIAdapter.extend({
urlForQuery(query, modelName) {
let userId = query.supportedByUser;
delete query.supportedByUser;
return userId
? `${this.namespace || ''}/users/${userId}/supported_products`
: this._super(...arguments);
}
});
Here is an example twiddle demoing this: https://ember-twiddle.com/b406391e98ed4fda30bc227a894fa7c9

Find the class name of a relation from the instance of a model in ember JS

I have foo an instance of the ember-data model thing. thing.js has the following property :
owner: DS.belongsTo('user')
If I have foo with an empty owner, how can I, with only foo and the 'owner' string, retrieve the value 'user' representing the model of the owner relation?
EDIT: I want to allow my select-relation component to works with relations where the name is different from the class name
It sounds like you have some work to do to finish setting up your relationships. Have a read through this page of the guides.
If the relationships are set up correctly, to get the associated user, you should be able to do foo.owner. This assumes that users are already present in the store. I recommend using the Ember Inspector browser plugin to debug the relationships.
This looks like a use case for typeForRelationship.
In your example you should be able to do something like
store.modelFor('thing').typeForRelationship('owner', store);
If you don't like that approach you can use the belongsTo reference API, where you use the meta data from the relationship to get the type
foo.belongsTo('owner').type
The only thing with that approach is that the type property may not be public API and possible (though unlikely) to change at some point.
It seems I can do the following :
this.get('model').get('_internalModel._relationships.initializedRelationships.'+this.get('relation')+'.relationshipMeta.type')
model being an instance and relation the string of the relation name, it correctly return the model of the relation.
EDIT : a better solution not using private API courtesy from the ember discord :
function getRelatedModelName(record, relationName){
let ParentModelClass = record.constructor;
let meta = get(ParentModelClass, 'relationshipsByName').get(relationName);
return meta.type;
}

Ember-data: pushObject doesn't set parent's type and id on polymorphic association

here is an idiomatic hasMany/belongsTo polymorphic example where email can belongs to the many types of Contactable ('profile' is one of them) http://emberjs.jsbin.com/sibecasiga/1/edit?js,output, which is perfectly described in the http://www.toptal.com/emberjs/a-thorough-guide-to-ember-data
The problem is that after profile.get('emails').pushObject(email); email's 'contactable' and 'contactableType' are empty. This is not how it is supposed to be, right?
Try setting the inverse in the profile model:
emails: DS.hasMany('email', { inverse: 'contactable' })

Fake select field for Simple Form

I'm using Simple Form, and I have a few fields that are not associated with my model. I found using this fake field option to be a good solution:
https://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form/wiki/Create-a-fake-input-that-does-NOT-read-attributes
I thought this was cleaner than adding an attr_accessor value for my fields, and it works great for text input fields. I'm hoping to accomplish the same thing with a Select Field.
I found this thread, but I couldn't find anything else:
https://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form/issues/747
Has anyone found a similar option for a Fake Select Input? Thanks!
Assuming you'll use that "fake select" for UI purposes (probably as a mean to modify the form fields to present the user using Javascript?) and you don't want to deal with the value in the controller, you could just use select_tag with any field name, instead of the simple_form f.input. The value will be sent to the server, but it will be outside the model params, so you can just ignore it in the controller.
If I misunderstood your question, please clarify.
If your just trying to get the name='whatever' instead of having name='model[whatever]' I've found it easiest to just specify the name attribute in input_html { name: 'whatever', id: 'whatever' } hash which over rides the default model[attribute].
Otherwise you could create a fake_select_input.rb which would be similar to fake_input.rb but obviously use a select_tag instead and do something like as: :fake_select

Custom Model URL

Is there currently (in the latest builds) a way of specifying a URL on a model-by-model basis? in Ember Data 1.0 beta? I have found some questions on SO and issues on Github around this, but most are out-dated.
For example, I have a model that's called App.PaymentSearchResult and rather than having the request go to /payment_search_results I would like it to go to /payments/search. Where would I override the URL used for a given model (rather than overriding buildURL on the RESTAdapter)?
You can override the the find adapter
but it's kind of hackish, i think however i would take another approach. Idealy you want your Ember models to reflect your backend's models, so why would you need a PaymentSearchResult? When you probably already have a Payment model?
If you need to search in your payment records, why not handle it using query params?
http://emberjs.com/guides/models/finding-records/#toc_querying-for-records
this.store.find('payment', { total: "22" });
Then you want to answer accordingly on the server.
If you want to do a search which returns multiple models, you do this with a manual ajax request.
var self = this;
$.get( "/search", { name: "John", time: "2pm" }, function(result) {
self.store.pushMany(result);
});
PushMany assumes a sane JSON structure.
http://emberjs.com/api/data/classes/DS.Store.html#method_pushMany