Save object to nested route

Design
1

I have a document model which has many signatures. The idea is to sign the document using a userName and password.

I GET the document from /documents/:doumentId

In the document template I show an empty form with user and password input fields and a button.

When the user clicks the button a signDocument action is handled in the document’s controller, where I create a new signature object and save it.

However the POST message is sent to /signatures and not to do /document/:id/signatures.

My router is as follows:

Router.map(function() {
  this.route("document", { path: "/documents/:document_id" }, function() {
    this.route("signatures");
  });
});

The document and signatures are shown using the document template, I am not using the signatures template

What am I missing?

2

Are you using Ember Data?

3

David,

Yes, I am using Ember Data.

After some research I noticed that the way to go is sending the POST to /signatures and including the relationships info in the payload. Is this right?

Regards, Héctor

4

Yes, I’d say that is the more conventional RESTful approach. If you do want to change the URL when you create a record, you can modify it in the model’s adapter.

5

David.

The answer was in the Changing the URL for Certain Operations chapter in your Ember Data in the Wild book.

I was so confused that I did not realize that!

However I will use the plain /signatures path to keep things simple.

Thank you very much,

Héctor

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