Reload current route's model without Ember Data - ember.js

Question

Ember Data has a reload method; I'm using a more basic approach (using Ember objects) to serve up my models, though.
I'd like a user to be able to reload the model for the current route via an action when e.g. a button is clicked. Is this possible without Ember Data?

Answer 1

Here is a really simple example of how I do it w/ your approach (notice the "clear").
You could invoke clear+find from your route / controller / whatever. I've also added a "beforeSend" to the $.ajax in some of my bigger apps (this will invoke the clear for you before the xhr is resolved)
App.Person.reopenClass({
people: Ember.A([]),
clear: function() {
this.people = Ember.A([]);
},
add: function(hash) {
var person = App.Person.create(hash);
this.people.pushObject(person);
},
remove: function(person) {
this.people.removeObject(person);
},
find: function() {
var self = this;
$.getJSON('/api/people', function(response) {
response.forEach(function(hash) {
var person = App.Person.create(hash);
Ember.run(self.people, self.people.pushObject, person);
});
}, this);
return this.people;
}
});

Answer 2

The issue was the async nature of the AJAX call I was making.
This didn't work:
this.set('model', App.MyObject.findAll(value));
I needed to allow the AJAX call to return the response, then populate the model:
var that = this;
App.MyObject.findAll(value).then(function(response) {
that.set('model', response);
});