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Alternates

I haven't had much time to maintain this project recently as I am no longer working on a project that uses Sails.js. Here are some alternate projects that you may want to consider instead of this one.

If you would like to modify your Sails.js backend to work with Ember Data out of the box check out @mphasize's sails-generate-ember-blueprints.

If you would like an adapter/serializer combo for Ember Data that works well with the stock Sails.js API and supports ember-cli check out @huafu's ember-data-sails

ember-data-sails-adapter 2.x

An Ember Data adapter for Sails.js v0.10. If you are looking for Sails.js blueprints that work well with Ember Data be sure to check out sails-generate-ember-blueprints.

Note: If you like to use this adapter with Sails.js v0.9 please use the 1.x line.

This package contains 2 Adapters, DS.SailsSocketAdapter and DS.SailsRESTAdapter.

bower install ember-data-sails-adapter

<script type="text/javascript" src="/bower_components/ember-data-sails-adapter/ember-data-sails-adapter.js"></script>

SailsSocketAdapter

The SailsSocketAdapter uses Sails's websocket support to find, create and delete records. This has the benefit of automatically subscribing to the Sails' update, create and delete events for for the model. To enable these events with Blueprint controllers in Sails v0.10 you will need to set the autosubscribe property on your Model. The adapter will add or update records in the store when a Sails emits an updated, created or destroyed event.

App.ApplicationAdapter = DS.SailsSocketAdapter.extend({
    namespace: '/api/v1',
});

SailsRESTAdapter

The SailsRESTAdapter works similarly to the Ember RESTAdapter. The main differences are this adapter automatically attempts to use the JSONSerializer instead of the RESTSerializer because it more closely matches the JSON response from Sails. Additionally it will re-format the error messages returned by Sails to match the format that Ember Data expects. With the SailsRESTAdapter you will not get the live updateing that comes with the SailsSocketAdapter. However, because websockets do not support compression using the SailsRESTAdapter may be beneficial when you are expecting a large response from the Sails api.

App.ApplicationAdapter = DS.SailsRESTAdapter.extend({
    namespace: '/api/v1'
});

Pluralised Routes

By default Sails does not pluralize the model names when creating urls to a model's route. This is different from the normal Ember Data conventions. To make it easy to get started the SailsRESTAdapter and SailsSocketAdapter will attempt to singularize the model name when requesting a model's route. If you would like to use a pluralized model name in the route you can override the default pathForType method.

Example

App.ApplicationAdapter = DS.SailsRESTAdapter.example({
  pathForType: function(type) {
    var camelized = Ember.String.camelize(type);
    return Ember.String.pluralize(camelized);
  }
});

You can enable pluralized routes in sails by going to config/blueprints.js and setting the pluralize variable to true.

SailsSocketAdapter Options

The options below are for the SailsSocketAdapter. To see a list of options for the SailsRESTAdapter see the RESTAdapter docs.

namespace

Type: String Default value: ''

The prefix to add to the request uris.

log

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Set to true if you would like to see a log of all requests in the command line.

useCSRF

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Used to map lowercase model names that sails uses to model names that ember can understand.

ember-data-sails-adapter 1.x

An Ember Data adapter for Sails.js v0.9.

This package contains 2 Adapters, DS.SailsSocketAdapter and DS.SailsRESTAdapter.

bower install ember-data-sails-adapter#1.0.1

<script type="text/javascript" src="/bower_components/ember-data-sails-adapter/ember-data-sails-adapter.js"></script>

SailsSocketAdapter

The SailsSocketAdapter uses Sails's websocket support to find, create and delete records. This has the benefit of automatically subscribing to the Sails' update, create and delete events for for the model. The adapter will add or update records in the store when a Sails emits an update, create and delete event.

App.ApplicationAdapter = DS.SailsSocketAdapter.extend({
    namespace: '/api/v1',
    log: false,
    modelNameMap: {
      userprofile: 'UserProfile'
    }
});

SailsRESTAdapter

App.ApplicationAdapter = DS.SailsRESTAdapter.extend({
    namespace: '/api/v1'
});

ApplicationSerializer

In Sails v0.9, the SailsSocketAdapter and SailsRESTAdapter both work best using the JSONSerializer. As a result of a bug in the stock JSONSerializer it is recommend that you create an ApplicationSerializer by extending the JSONSerializer like in the example below.

App.ApplicationSerializer = DS.JSONSerializer.extend({
  // Fix broken extractArray see:
  // https://github.com/emberjs/data/pull/1479
  extractArray: function(store, type, arrayPayload) {
    var serializer = this;
    return Ember.ArrayPolyfills.map.call(arrayPayload, function(singlePayload) {
      return serializer.extractSingle(store, type, singlePayload);
    });
  },
  // Allow JSONSerializer to work with RESTAdapter
  // https://github.com/emberjs/data/blob/7e83ed158034cf7fedf2a7113a82de5d5ce67e76/packages/ember-data/lib/adapters/rest_adapter.js#L379
  serializeIntoHash: function(hash, type, record, options) {
    Ember.merge(hash, this.serialize(record, options));
  }
});

SailsSocketAdapter Options

The options below are for the SailsSocketAdapter. To see a list of options for the SailsRESTAdapter see the RESTAdapter docs.

namespace

Type: String Default value: ''

The prefix to add to the request uris.

log

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Set to true if you would like to see a log of all requests in the command line.

modelNameMap

Type: Object Default value: {}

Used to map lowercase model names that sails uses to model names that ember can understand.

License

MIT License