ember-data-model-proxy

Description

This ember addon provides the means to create/delete/edit ember-data models through a proxy, without applying the changes to the model itself. The model-proxy can then apply the changes to the model at a later date.

Installation

Like most ember addons, simply run ember install ember-data-model-proxy and you should be all set.

Docs

Utils

Model-Proxy

This is the model-proxy object in itself. It has all the functions/objects specific to it.

applyChanges

This applies the changes of the model-proxy to the model itself. It doesn't save the model though, it simply applies the modifications. It will go through each attribute/relationship of the model and update it with the value present in the proxy. It won't add new attributes not present in the model definition that were set in the proxy.

It receives only a single parameter, applyChangesToRelationships, which is true by default. This makes it so that every relationships that is proxied on the model will also have the applyChanges method called on them.

If the underlying model doesn't not exists, it will create one using the store and the model type that was passed to create the model-proxy.

save

This method calls applyChanges and then saves the current underlying model. It does not call the save of each relationship though, so you still need to call those manually. If requested enough, it can be changed to save the relationships too, but that behaviour would not be intuitive IMO.

set/get

The model-proxy uses the (set)unknownProperty functions exposed by ember to get/set the values in the proxy object without impacting the model. Any call to model-proxy.set will set the values in an underlying proxy object. Be careful not to set/get values present in the model-proxy itself though, because it will set/get those instead. For example, since "proxy" is the name of the underlying object containing the changes, calling model-proxy.set('proxy', 'some-value') will cause a whole lot of things to break. But eh, if you want to break it, that's the easy way to do it.

Services

Model-Proxy

The model-proxy service makes it easy to create model-proxies, with or without relationships. The main method it exposes is the CreateModelProxy() method:

CreateModelProxy

Parameters	Type	Description
type	string (required)	Type of the model on which the proxy is based. This is usually the name of an ember-data model
model	model	Base ember-data model to which the modifications will be applied. (Also initial state)
returns	model-proxy	Returns a new model-proxy object

Here, it's possible to pass only the type (service.createModelProxy('address-model') for example), which will result in a model-proxy with no base model. It can still be interacted with as usual, but now if you call applyChanges on that model-proxy, a record will be created using the type that was initially passed.

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