# Why there is no DS.attr('array')?

**URL:** https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/why-there-is-no-ds-attr-array/7464
**Category:** Ember Data
**Created:** [March 8, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/why-there-is-no-ds-attr-array/7464 "2015-03-08T23:51:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 4

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![gniquil](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/gniquil/32/5014_2.png) [@gniquil](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/gniquil)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/why-there-is-no-ds-attr-array/7464/4 "2015-03-20T19:50:21Z")

</div>

I just posted something [here](http://discuss.emberjs.com/t/how-to-handle-object-array-attributes/7583), I can imagine this work for Array, but more broadly for almost any complex objects.

---

_[View the full topic](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/why-there-is-no-ds-attr-array/7464)._