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How can I clone an Ember Data record, including relationships?

I've figured out that I can clone an Ember Data record and copy its Attributes, but none of the belongsTo/hasMany relationships are cloned. Can I do this somehow if I don't know what relationships would be possible, going off of the relationships that exist?

For reference, here is what I've got that will clone an Ember Data record's attributes:

var attributeKeys = oldModel.get('constructor.attributes.keys.list');
var newRecord = this.get('store').createRecord(oldModel.constructor.typeKey);
newRecord.setProperties(oldModel.getProperties(attributeKeys));
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Kerrick Avatar asked Nov 15 '13 17:11

Kerrick


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A few improvements to Daniel's answer that allows providing overrides, and clears the id for new records, to be safe. Also I prefer not to call save within the clone method, but leave it up to the caller.

DS.Model.reopen({
    clone: function(overrides) {
        var model = this,
            attrs = model.toJSON(),
            class_type = model.constructor;

        var root = Ember.String.decamelize(class_type.toString().split('.')[1]);

        /*
         * Need to replace the belongsTo association ( id ) with the
         * actual model instance.
         *
         * For example if belongsTo association is project, the
         * json value for project will be:  ( project: "project_id_1" )
         * and this needs to be converted to ( project: [projectInstance] )
         */
        this.eachRelationship(function(key, relationship) {
            if (relationship.kind == 'belongsTo') {
                attrs[key] = model.get(key);
            }
        });

        /*
         * Need to dissociate the new record from the old.
         */
        delete attrs.id;

        /*
         * Apply overrides if provided.
         */
        if (Ember.typeOf(overrides) === 'object') {
            Ember.setProperties(attrs, overrides);
        }

        return this.store.createRecord(root, attrs);
    }
});
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macu Avatar answered Oct 05 '22 15:10

macu


Here is a clone function that I use. Takes care of the belongs to associations.

 DS.Model.reopen({
   clone: function() {
    var model = this,
        attrs = model.toJSON(),
        class_type = model.constructor;

    var root = Ember.String.decamelize(class_type.toString().split('.')[1]);

    /**
     * Need to replace the belongsTo association ( id ) with the
     * actual model instance.
     *
     * For example if belongsTo association is project, the
     * json value for project will be:  ( project: "project_id_1" )
     * and this needs to be converted to ( project: [projectInstance] )
     *
     */
    this.eachRelationship(function(key, relationship){
      if (relationship.kind == 'belongsTo') {
        attrs[key] = model.get(key)
      }
    })

    return this.store.createRecord(root, attrs).save();
  }

})
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DanielSpaniel Avatar answered Oct 05 '22 14:10

DanielSpaniel