Proper way to load up the current user's data from preloaded JSON

1

Hi there!

I’m having some trouble setting something up that I feel should be easy, but I think I’m missing something.

What I have:

  • My ember app is only available if the user is logged in (Rails app)
  • Active model serializers can dump model data onto the HTML page in the proper form for Ember-data
  • I am loading the current user’s personal data (name/email) via an initializer in the ember-app. Looks like this:
Ember.Application.initializer
  name: 'currentUser'

  initialize: (container) ->
    store = container.lookup('store:main')
    preloadJSON = JSON.parse $('meta[name="current-user"]').attr('content')

    if preloadJSON
      loadedObj = store.push('currentUser', currentUser)
      user = store.find('user', loadedObj.id)
      
      controller = container.lookup('controller:currentUser').set('content', user)
      container.typeInjection('controller', 'currentUser', 'controller:currentUser')

What I’d like to accomplish:

  • Have some models scoped specifically to this user (i.e. the user has_one questionnaire) also be preloaded into the store, so that in my ember code I can call currentUser.questionnaire straight off the bat without a call to the server.

I’m not quite sure how to get this going. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

2

You’re on the right track. I would recommend using store.pushPayload and if you want to sideload related models (questionnaire), go ahead and include them in the serialized JSON.

3

Unfortunately no luck so far.

I’ve tried just doing a straight pushPayload on my JSON data but no takers. It has the following form out of AMS :

{
  "user": {
     id: 1,
     attribute: 'hello"
  },

  "questionnaires": [
    {
      id: 55,
      attribute: "goodbye"
    }
  ]

}

I’m not sure if the issue has to do with the user key being singular? That’s just the way it likes to pop out from AMS … It loads up some of the data, but it is not fixing any attributes that are underscore_separated and changing them to camelCase .

4

Expected JSON property names can be adjusted by implementing a serializer, especially keyForAttribute.