Restangular - Get object w/id, edit object, update object

Question

I can't seem to figure this out -

I want to do something like:

content = Restangular.one('contents', 2).get()
content.name = "Chunky Bacon"
content.put()

But this doesn't work - content doesn't have a put function, and interestingly, it doesn't have a name, either (is that because it's a "promise"?)

Now, the Restangular docs do describe updating an object, but you get that object as part of a collection:

content_id2 = Restangular.all("contents").getList()[2]
content_id2.name = "Chunky Bacon"
content_id2.put()

And this works. But! Not only have I fetched the entire list, I can't figure out how to easily get my content by it's ID; something like Restangular.all("contents").getList().find(2)

customPUT(..) seems like the next best bet:

Restangular.one("contents", 2).customPUT("", {"content" : {"name" : "Chunky Bacon"} } )

Only when the Rails server receives it, params["content"] == {id: 2} - it seems like something on the client side is stomping that value. (Again, note, no name field). Now, I can work around it simply by doing something like:

Restangular.one("contents", 2).customPUT("", {"content_data" : {"name" : "Chunky Bacon"} )

but it really seems like I'm just missing how you're supposed to do this.

Answer 1

Alright, found it, thanks to this question:

#In the beginning:
Restangular.one("content", 2).get().then(function(c){
  $scope.content = c
})

#Elsewhere:
$scope.content.name = "Chunky Bacon"

#Finally:
$scope.content.put()