RESTAdapter: how to create resources with nested path

Question

I want to know how to create a resource which has nested path in the rest api.

for example given the end point for employee resource, /companies/{company}/employees/{employee}

How can i create a employee record. i created a employee model, but the request is going to the top level /. sending a post request with employee data to /.

should i override pathForType() on the adapter?

Answer 1

If you are talking about ember router paths then this is how I've done it:

App.Router.map(function () {
    this.resource('companies', {path: 'companies/:company_id'}, function () {
       this.resource('employees', {path: 'employees/:employee_id'});
    });
});

Which creates something like: index.html/#/companies/{company}/employees/{employee}

This will create CompaniesRoute and EmployeesRoute nested in that route. This can be nicely viewed in the ember inspector if you've set that up.

Ember will enter CompaniesRoute first and then EmployeesRoute.

See routing documentation here

If you are talking about sending data to a REST API server then one solution is to override buildURL e.g.:

App.Store = DS.Store.extend({
    adapter: DS.RESTAdapter.extend({
        host: "http://whatever", 
        buildURL: function (type, id) {
            var url = [];
            url.push(this.urlPrefix());
            url.push("companies/" + App.companyID + "/employee/" + App.employeeID );
            url.push(this.pathForType(type));
            if (id) {
                url.push(id);
            }
            return url.join('/') + ".json";
        }
    })
});

also see RESTAdapter doco here

Note App.companyID would have to be set before you called buildURL. I would do this in CompanyRoute and set it like this

model: function (params) {
   App.set('companyID', params.company_id);
}