Dirt tracking with Ember-Data - only save dirty properties

[radq]

You are right that the correct place for this is the application serializer. I wrote one a while ago but I haven’t tested it much, perhaps it would be helpful as a starting point at least?

Saving models with only changed attributes/relationships

You can do this by overriding the serializer. Hummingbird.ApplicationSerializer = DS.ActiveModelSerializer.extend serialize: (record, options) -> json = {} if options and options.includeId if record.get('id') json[this.get('primaryKey')] = record.get('id') changedAttributes = Object.keys record.get('_inFlightAttributes') record.eachAttribute (key, attribute) -> if changedAttributes.indexOf(key) != -1 @serializeAttribute(record, json, key, attribu…