How to reference firebase adapter from another file using ember-cli?

Ember CLI
1

Hi, I’m on ember-cli 0.46 and Emberfire. How would I access the ```firebaseproperty from, say, myinitializer/auth` file? I’d like to avoid defining a reference to my firebase twice.

My application adapter looks like this:

import DS from 'ember-data';
import ENV from '../config/environment';

export default DS.FirebaseAdapter.extend({
	firebase: new window.Firebase('https://' + ENV.firebase_instance + '.firebaseio.com')
});
2

What you are already doing is fine. The Firebase code will take care of unifying the connections in a single connection (as per the docs).

3

Stefan Penner has a sample project running on ember-fire that uses ember-cli.

He defines the application adapter thusly:

export default DS.FirebaseAdapter.extend({
  firebase: new window.Firebase('https://' + ENV.firebase_instance + '.firebaseio.com')
});

And then uses this.store to send backend requests through the adapter to Firebase.

Does that not help?

4

Thank you both. Perhaps I should clarify. My issue is that I’m defining the Firebase instance more than once, shouldn’t I be able to access the firebase property from other files somehow to avoid defining it twice? Even if Firebase unifies the connections.

The code I posted above already works, I’d just like to avoid duplicating a line of code :slight_smile:

5

You should be able to define an initializer that injects the firebase instance on all controllers and routes, exactly as EmberData is doing with the store.

6

Actually, no you shouldn’t, not in all cases. For example, you might want to listen to the authentication status if you’re using FirebaseSimpleLogin:

this.authRef = new window.Firebase( firebase + '/.info/authenticated' )

And there might be other URLs where you want to access Firebase specifics, can’t recall any others off hand though.