toStringExtension and DS.Model

Ember Data
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I have just started looking at ember in order to use it for a rich client application with a rails backend. The two way data binding is very cool. I am slowly working out through ember-data.

In order to help with debugging, I was using the toStringExtension method in my model. Howver, it seems to me that the toStringExtension is caching the computed value of the function. I am not sure if this is the expected behavior or not.

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Hmm, it doesn’t seem like this should be the case. It looks like the method should be called every time toString is called. It should be easy to verify by adding a console.log in your toStringExtension method.

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Peter, Here’s some code. I have confirmed that console.log does not get called

Profile = DS.Model.extend
  firstName: DS.attr('string')
   toStringExtension: ->
     console.log 'extension called'
     "Profile for #{@get('name')}"

Profile.createRecord name: 'dennis'
p.toString()

log called profile.js?body=1:15

“Prospects.Profile:ember743:Profile for Dennis>”

p.set('name','ha')
p.toString()

“Prospects.Profile:ember743:Profile for Dennis”