How to retrieve all properties of an Ember.js model

Question

I'm working with forms in Ember.js and I want to retrieve a list of all model properties so that I can take snapshots of the state of the form at different moments. Is there a way to get a list of all properties of a model?

For example, if my model is:

App.User = DS.Model.extend({
  name: DS.attr('string'),
  email: DS.attr('string'),
  current_password: DS.attr('string'),
  password: DS.attr('string'),
  password_confirmation: DS.attr('string'),
  admin: DS.attr('boolean'),
}

Then I would like to have something like this:

> getEmberProps('User')

["name", "email", "current_password", "password", "password_confirmation", "admin"]

Answer 1

You can simply use toJSON method on model and get the keys from object.

Ember.keys(model.toJSON())

Note that will not return you keys for relations.

Answer 2

You can also use this:
http://emberjs.com/api/data/classes/DS.Model.html#property_attributes http://emberjs.com/api/data/classes/DS.Model.html#method_eachAttribute

Ember.get(App.User, 'attributes').map(function(name) { return name; });
Ember.get(userInstance.constructor, 'attributes').map(function(name) { return name; });

There's also similar properties for relationships too.