Ember Data Endpoint Issue - ember.js

Question

I am experiencing a weird issue while using ember data. With the following user model everything works great.
App.User= DS.Model.extend({
firstName: attr(),
lastName: attr()
});
I call user.save() and is posts to /users with the correct data. However when i try and use a user model that has relationships on it
App.User= DS.Model.extend({
firstName: DS.attr('string'),
lastName: DS.attr('string'),
friends: DS.hasMany('user'),
followers: DS.hasMany('user'),
});
For some reason with that model when i call user.save() it posts to /Users (note the capitalization. Also, in the response it expects it formatted {"User": {...}} instead of {"user": {...}}
Anyone run into this before? I could always add the additional endpoints to my api however I would like it to work uniform if possible.

Answer 1

I did a little more digging and it seems when you add a relationship to the model there is a computed property called relationshipsByName. This property, in my example, will set the meta.type property to 'User'. It works without relationships because I called the createRecord method with 'user' so i assume it uses this as the type. When the relationship is added it uses 'User'
I found that modelFor calls the resolvers normalize on the keys. So the solution is to add a custom resolver like below.
App = Ember.Application.create({
Resolver: Ember.DefaultResolver.extend({
normalize: function(fullName) {
var n = this._super(fullName);
if(fullName.startsWith('model')){
n = n.replaceAt(6, n[6].toLowerCase());
}
return n;
}
})
});
*note i have string extensions for startsWith and replaceAt