Whats the best strategy for letting users download ember-data returns as CSVs?

Ember Data
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Thanks for your help! I’ve managed to create a component button that will produce and download a CSV file thanks to the above information.

I struggled with parsing an object into a CSV string but found Papa parse which is doing a bang up job.

My last hurdle is working out how to do this in a model method like you mentioned. The only way I can get it to work at the minute is by explicitly iterating on the model in the component controller which means it isn’t very flexible:

export default Component.extend({
  download: service('download'),

  model: null,
  conData: computed('model', function() {
    let newArray = [];
    this.get('model').forEach(function(x) {
      let newData = {
        name: x.data.name,
       age: x.data.age
      }
      newArray.push(newData)
    })
    return newArray
  }),

  actions: {
    request() {
      let csvArray = Papa.unparse(this.get('conData'))
      this.get('download').asCSV('GeneratedReport.csv', csvArray)
    }
  }
});

The only thing I’vve done with models so far is to populate them from a JSON return.