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DS.Serializer Class

Extends Ember.Object
Defined in: addon/serializer.js:7
Module: ember-data

DS.Serializer is an abstract base class that you should override in your application to customize it for your backend. The minimum set of methods that you should implement is:

  • normalizeResponse()
  • serialize()

And you can optionally override the following methods:

  • normalize()

For an example implementation, see DS.JSONSerializer, the included JSON serializer.

Item Index

Properties

Methods

normalize

(
  • typeClass
  • hash
)
Object

The normalize method is used to convert a payload received from your external data source into the normalized form store.push() expects. You should override this method, munge the hash and return the normalized payload.

Example:

Serializer.extend({
  normalize(modelClass, resourceHash) {
    var data = {
      id:            resourceHash.id,
      type:          modelClass.modelName,
      attributes:    resourceHash
    };
    return { data: data };
  }
})

Parameters:

Returns:

Object:

normalizeResponse

(
  • store
  • primaryModelClass
  • payload
  • id
  • requestType
)
Object

Defined in addon/serializer.js:50

Available since 1.13.0

The normalizeResponse method is used to normalize a payload from the server to a JSON-API Document.

http://jsonapi.org/format/#document-structure

Example:

Serializer.extend({
  normalizeResponse(store, primaryModelClass, payload, id, requestType) {
    if (requestType === 'findRecord') {
      return this.normalize(primaryModelClass, payload);
    } else {
      return payload.reduce(function(documentHash, item) {
        let { data, included } = this.normalize(primaryModelClass, item);
        documentHash.included.push(...included);
        documentHash.data.push(data);
        return documentHash;
      }, { data: [], included: [] })
    }
  }
});

Parameters:

  • store DS.Store
  • primaryModelClass DS.Model
  • payload Object
  • id String | Number
  • requestType String

Returns:

Object:

JSON-API Document

serialize

(
  • snapshot
  • [options]
)
Object

The serialize method is used when a record is saved in order to convert the record into the form that your external data source expects.

serialize takes an optional options hash with a single option:

  • includeId: If this is true, serialize should include the ID in the serialized object it builds.

Example:

Serializer.extend({
  serialize(snapshot, options) {
    var json = {
      id: snapshot.id
    };

    snapshot.eachAttribute((key, attribute) => {
      json[key] = snapshot.attr(key);
    });

    snapshot.eachRelationship((key, relationship) => {
      if (relationship.kind === 'belongsTo') {
        json[key] = snapshot.belongsTo(key, { id: true });
      } else if (relationship.kind === 'hasMany') {
        json[key] = snapshot.hasMany(key, { ids: true });
      }
    });

    return json;
  },
});

Parameters:

Returns:

Object:

Properties

store

DS.Store public

The store property is the application's store that contains all records. It can be used to look up serializers for other model types that may be nested inside the payload response.

Example:

Serializer.extend({
  extractRelationship(relationshipModelName, relationshipHash) {
    var modelClass = this.store.modelFor(relationshipModelName);
    var relationshipSerializer = this.store.serializerFor(relationshipModelName);
    return relationshipSerializer.normalize(modelClass, relationshipHash);
  }
});