Should buildURL be looking for trailing slashes?

Ember Data
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Currently, I’m working with a REST API that has the following convention for routes:

  • Collection routes have an appended trailing slash (i.e. ../animals/)
  • Single routes do NOT have an appended trailing slash (i.e. .../animals/1)

What Ember-Data currently expects is no trailing slashes (REST Conventions) and therefore when working with them it appends the id after inputting a trailing slash, resulting in an extra forward slash: ../animals//1

While I have currently extended the RESTAdapter’s buildURL method to look out for these use cases, I have been wondering if it is Ember’s responsibility to look for these checks by default.

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Just in case anyone still interested in this:

I had the same problem, but instead of extending the whole buildURL function I’ve overwrite the findAll function of my adapter (ÀctiveModelAdapter) so that it appends an extra / only when looking for all records.

It is not full tested, it could have some little problems if you’re passing parameter to search but it should works fine.

3

Could you submit an issue/failing test/a PR with the solution to the https://github.com/emberjs/data ?

4

Rigth now I’ve only the function code, no tests or anyting … :non-potable_water:

As soon as I can write it better I’ll submit it. In the mean while, extend or reopen your adapter and:

findAll: function(store, type, sinceToken) {
  var query;

  if (sinceToken) {
    query = { since: sinceToken };
  }

  return this.ajax(this.buildURL(type.typeKey)+'/', 'GET', { data: query });
},

I don’t like to have rewritten the whole function, I’d rather try to use this.__super() but since the function is returning an ajax request I’m not sure how to do it…