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user1168427
user1168427

Reputation: 1003

Ember-data in a non-RESTful environment

I would like to use ember-data in a project I am building, but the API I am working with does not follow REST conventions.

For example, all the HTTP requests are POST and the naming conventions of the endpoints are unique to the actions they perform. e.g. /api/thing/retrieve would require me to post a JSON object with some parameters, and would return a 'thing' to me.

Do I use the Restful adapter and reopen the class and redefine the various find functions?

OR

Do I have to make a new adapter?

OR

Should I just abandon ember-data and and use ajax in my models(or maybe even controllers)?

I'm not sure how I would handle any of those options. Any guidance would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 14

Views: 2634

Answers (2)

mspisars
mspisars

Reputation: 854

I would say that, if your API is consistent (reliable) then you should create/extend the DS.Adapter (not DS.RESTAdapter) to implement to your specification.

All the hooks are there, you will just end up defining it once which all models can use.

I would also read through the Basic Adapter code - (https://github.com/emberjs/data/blob/master/packages/ember-data/lib/adapters/basic_adapter.js) it might be a better staring point for you then DS.Adapter.

If your API is not reliable, then you are probably better off with just using the $.ajax() calls as necessary. But, in my opinion, that does not scale well.

A link worth reading when looking at Basic Adapter: http://emberjs.com/blog/2013/03/22/stabilizing-ember-data.html

One last note, building an ORM or even a something more simple then an ORM is not a trivial task, that for me, makes using ember-data worth the effort, and yes sometimes pain.

Upvotes: 0

nrion
nrion

Reputation: 248

The only information which I have seen on this subject has been an article by the Discourse folks linked below.

http://eviltrout.com/2013/03/23/ember-without-data.html

I personally have toyed around with the reopenClass method in the article, and would probably drop it into a mixin or something to that effect if I had a consistent but non-REST API which I was calling regularly.

Upvotes: 1

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