Custom Dynamic Segment (NOT ID) - EmberJS - ember.js

Question

I want to have a dynamic segment path in Ember without using the :id attribute
As per the Ember Guides, I'm using the serialize method to achieve this.
Heres my Router:
App.Router.map(function() {
this.resource("orders", function(){
this.resource('order', { path: ':order_sequence'}, function(){
this.route('edit');
})
});
});
And my Route:
var OrderRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
model: function(params) {
return this.store.find('order', params.order_sequence)
},
serialize: function(model) {
return { order_sequence: model.get('sequence') };
}
});
module.exports = OrderRoute;
However, my URL's still behave using the id attribute in the path instead of the sequence attribute..
Any ideas?

Answer 1

Is your browser caching something, because that's correct. Are you passing in the id instead of the sequence/model in any of your transitionTo/transitionToRoute/link-to?
Oh, you aren't talking about the slug in the url, nor the route, you are talking about the id of your model. You need to create a serializer for that particular model and override the primary key
App.OrderSerializer = DS.RESTSerializer.extend({
primaryKey: 'sequence'
});
The Fixture Adapter has a constraint on defining the id, but you can lazily get around it by extending the fixture adapter and overriding a single method
App.OrderAdapter = DS.FixtureAdapter.extend({
fixturesForType: function(type) {
if (type.FIXTURES) {
var fixtures = Ember.A(type.FIXTURES);
return fixtures.map(function(fixture){
// aka we massasge the data a bit here so the fixture adapter won't whine so much
fixture.id = fixture.sequence;
var fixtureIdType = typeof fixture.id;
if(fixtureIdType !== "number" && fixtureIdType !== "string"){
throw new Error(fmt('the id property must be defined as a number or string for fixture %#', [fixture]));
}
fixture.id = fixture.id + '';
return fixture;
});
}
return null;
},
});