Custom Model URL - ember.js

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

Related

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

ember js get relationships of relationships

My routes have something like this
return this.store.query('author', {filter:{username : username},
include: 'books, books.readers'})
as we can see author has Many-2-Many relationships with books, book have relationship with reader
How can I include books.reader when run query with author?
Ember Data provides the ability to query for records that meet certain criteria. Calling store.query() will make a GET request with the passed object serialized as query params. This method returns a DS.PromiseArray in the same way as findAll.
So for example in your case author with :username can be changed to the following code:
// GET to /persons?filter[username]=username
this.get('store').query('author', {
filter: {
username: username
}
}).then(function(username) {
// Do something with `username` which can be another filter and whatever else you want, give it a try.
});
Hope it can solve your problem.

Ember distinguish record which is requested from server with params and without params

I'm trying to get two records from the server without knowing the ID's. The first record is requested without params and the second record with params.
It looks something like this:
model: function(){
return Ember.RSVP.hash({
cars: this.store.find('cars').then(function(car){
return car.get('firstObject');
}),
carsWithRange: this.store.find('cars', {date_from: momentLast30Days}).then(function(car){
return car.get('firstObject');
})
});
}
At the moment 'cars' and 'carsWithRange' sometimes returns the same record. I think this is happening because I use car.get('firstObject') from the cars models. Somehow I need to know that 'carsWithRange' is requested with the param 'date_from'.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
FYI I use Ember 1.12.1 with Ember Data 1.0.0-beta.15
We finally solved it in the frontend by using this.store.findQuery (with a query which doesn't make a lot of sense) instead of this.store.find. This returns the exact record which is given by the server. But yeah it feels a bit hacky.

Can i hide the query params from the URL?

In my Ember.js Application, I am dealing with query params for list updates. I have one strange use case, in which I don’t the URL to be updated with certain query params. How can I achieve this?
I assume you want to reload your model with parameters that are different than the ones in your application route? And you keep your application route parameters synced using queryParams?
In your route's model function you can filter your model data by the same query params (that appear in the address bar) but you can add some logic that extracts additional parameters either from the controller or other place and these parameters the data fetching query. Example:
model: function(queryParams) {
var params = queryParams;
params.additional_filter = this.controllerFor('mycontroller').get('additional_filter');
return this.store.find('mymodel', params);
}
Also if you want to explicitly reload the model you will need to call Router.refresh() function.

Get server URL for Ember DS.Model Class

In using Ember Data for my models, there are some cases where I need to work around the data limitations and access other quasi-restful URLs on my server.
For example, I have a Feed object that records a stream of data. For accessing the models I have a RESTful endpoint:
/feeds/:feed_id
In order to start and stop recording a feed, I need to send a PATCH to a url like:
/feeds/:feed_id?update_action=start
Subsequently I can reload my model and see the changes reflected therein.
In this case, I need to access $.ajax and the URL is the same as the one Ember would use. However, I can't figure out how to eke this information out of Ember.
So far, the best I can do is:
DS.Model.reopen
rootForModel: Ember.computed( ->
#.store.adapterForType(#).serializer.rootForType(#.constructor)
)
pluralRootForModel: Ember.computed( ->
#.store.adapterForType(#).serializer.pluralize(#get("rootForModel"))
)
Such that for an instance of App.FeedItem I can do:
this.get("rootForModel") # feed_item
this.get("pluralRootForModel") # feed_items
And I'm guessing this would stay in sync with any settings made in the Adapter etc.
Subsequently, I can call like:
$.ajax
url: #get("pluralRootForModel") + "/" + #get("id")
data:
update_action: "start"
type: "PATCH"
Is this totally out in left field? Is there a more direct way to compose these URLs?
Another (related issue) is getting the underscored name for a given model.
App.MyModelController => my_model_controller
I've done something like:
Ember.Object.reopenClass
###*
* The underscored name for this.
* i.e. App.MyClass -> my_class
* From an instance, use this.constructor.underscored_class_name()
* #return {String} This classname, underscored.
###
underscored_class_name: ->
_.underscored("#{#}".replace(/^.*?\./g, ""))
Is this crazy? Are there any better ways?
Check out buildURL in DS.RESTAdapter.
If you want to use underscores in server paths and keys, check out DS.ActiveModelAdapter (and its default serializer, DS.ActiveModelSerializer). This adapter has its own implementation of buildURL.