Ember.js REST Adapter without JSON root

Question

The Ember.js REST Adapter expects the JSON to be returned as:

{
    "person": {
        "first_name": "Barack",
        "last_name": "Obama",
        "is_person_of_the_year": true
    }
}

But my API returns the data without a root element:

{
    "first_name": "Barack",
    "last_name": "Obama",
    "is_person_of_the_year": true
}

Is it possible to customize the REST Adapter so that it accepts my JSON data? Right now it's showing "Assertion failed: Your server returned a hash with the key 0 but you have no mapping for it"

UPDATE: Based on Sherwin Yu's answer below, this is what I came up with, seems to work so far: https://gist.github.com/richardkall/5910875

Answer 1

You could also normalize it into something ember would expect.

App.PersonSerializer = DS.RESTSerializer.extend({
  normalizePayload: function(type, payload) {
    var typeKey = type.typeKey;
    return {
      typeKey: payload
    }
  }
});