Is there a preferred or “Ember way” to insert an api access token?

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I asked this question on StackOverflow, but maybe this would have been a better place to start.

My api expects an api token as a query parameter for GETs and DELETEs and a parameter in the body for PUT/PATCHs and POSTs.

I see in the Ember Guides the inclusion of an API key in a header, but that’s not what my api expects. I also saw some old posts that seemed to override the ajax method, but that member is marked private, so I don’t think it would be considered the “Ember Way”.

Is there a documented “Ember Way” do accomplish this? Or is there any “Best Practices” that most people are following for this?

I think overriding the ajax method would work for me, since I think the query parameters would be sent on all requests, and I think they would be available in the rails controller for GETs,POSTs,PUTs/PATCHs,DELETEs, but I hesitate to use it because it is marked as private in the documentation, although it is not named _ajax(). Are there any options on using this ajax method as described here.

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Could you have the API key sent in the header?

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Not without changing the api on the server side. The idea here is to adapt to the existing api, I think that’s the main idea of the adapter to begin with, right?

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My recommendation is to override buildUrl

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Agreed. When you want to adapt Ember to your API, you should put all of that logic into the Adapters (and serializers if you need to). We’ve built an app with a pretty crazy API on the back-end but the whole thing “feels” like an ember app because all of the work to adapt to the API is isolated.

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I will have to give buildUrl another shot, I tried this originally, but could not get it to work, so i resorted to the private ajax method.