Access to record's changed attributes in the RESTAdapter

Ember Data
1

Is there any way to access a record’s changed attrs in the updateRecord function when I extend the RESTAdapter?

I’d like to format the payload being sent to my back-end write endpoint and am thinking the place to do it would be in the adapter’s update/createRecord functions. Am I on the right path here?

In my controller, I have:

Site.EntityController = Ember.ObjectController.extend({
  actions: {
    updateEntity: function() {
      console.log(this.model.changedAttributes());
      this.model.save();
    }
  }
});

In the adapter, I’d like to have something like:

// Override the default adapter with the `DS.ActiveModelAdapter` which
// is built to work nicely with the ActiveModel::Serializers gem.

Site.ApplicationAdapter = DS.RESTAdapter.extend({
 updateRecord: function(store, type, record) {
    var data = {}
    data.uuid = record.uuid;
    data.type = record.type;

    data.properties = {};
    _.each(record.changedAttributes(), function(elem) {
         // set changed attributes in the properties map
      });
      // POST data to the back-end
  },
  createRecord: function(store, type, record) {
    console.log('createRecord');
  }
});

Could someone offer any advice on 1) whether I’m on the right path in doing this in the adapter and 2) how?

2

Is your intention to format the payload or only save dirty attributes or both?

3

Both. It seems that Ember saves the model on the client store prior to posting it to the server. Hence, I’m unable to discover the dirty attributes in the REST adapter functions.

I want the payload I send to the server to persist to only contain changed attributes and not the entire model record.

4

For payload formatting I think you want the serializer.

For the dirty thing this maybe of interest

5

Thanks. That might just be what I need. I’ll give it a try.