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yojoannn
yojoannn

Reputation: 626

Ember include id property in POST payload

I have the following models:

  1. A "generic" model reference used for listing values
  2. user model

Now, user can have many departments whose model is exactly reference.

How can I declare in user model that the departments can have many reference objects?

I tried the following but can't make it work:

import DS from 'ember-data';
import Ember from 'ember';

export default DS.Model.extend({
    name: DS.attr('string'),
    departments: DS.hasMany('reference')
});

For what it's worth, this question stemmed from needing to include the id in the POST payload using Ember Data. My original user model is like this: 

import DS from 'ember-data';
import Ember from 'ember';

export default DS.Model.extend({
    name: DS.attr('string'),
    departments: DS.attr()
});

Problem with above model, whenever I save a record, it doesn't include the ID of the references in the payload even though they're already loaded in the store.

Do I need to create a custom serializer for the user model?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 439

Answers (1)

Carl
Carl

Reputation: 760

It sounds like you are after the EmbeddedRecordsMixin.

With it you can tell the serializer to include the entire model or its' id. Something like this:

//serializer/user.js
import DS from 'ember-data';

export default DS.RESTSerializer.extend(DS.EmbeddedRecordsMixin, {
  attrs: {
    departments: { embedded: 'always' }
  }
});

Upvotes: 1

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