Class DS.JSONSerializer

Extends: DS.Serializer
Defined in: addon/serializers/json.js:17
Module: ember-data

extractAttributes (modelClass, resourceHash) Object

Module: ember-data
modelClass
Object
resourceHash
Object
returns
Object

Returns the resource's attributes formatted as a JSON-API "attributes object".

http://jsonapi.org/format/#document-resource-object-attributes

extractErrors (store, typeClass, payload, id) Object

Module: ember-data
store
DS.Store
typeClass
DS.Model
payload
Object
id
(String|Number)
returns
Object
json The deserialized errors

extractErrors is used to extract model errors when a call to DS.Model#save fails with an InvalidError. By default Ember Data expects error information to be located on the errors property of the payload object.

This serializer expects this errors object to be an Array similar to the following, compliant with the JSON-API specification:

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "detail": "This username is already taken!",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "data/attributes/username"
      }
    }, {
      "detail": "Doesn't look like a valid email.",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "data/attributes/email"
      }
    }
  ]
}

The key detail provides a textual description of the problem. Alternatively, the key title can be used for the same purpose.

The nested keys source.pointer detail which specific element of the request data was invalid.

Note that JSON-API also allows for object-level errors to be placed in an object with pointer data, signifying that the problem cannot be traced to a specific attribute:

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "detail": "Some generic non property error message",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "data"
      }
    }
  ]
}

When turn into a DS.Errors object, you can read these errors through the property base:

{{#each model.errors.base as |error|}}
  <div class="error">
    {{error.message}}
  </div>
{{/each}}

Example of alternative implementation, overriding the default behavior to deal with a different format of errors:

app/serializers/post.js
import DS from 'ember-data';

export default DS.JSONSerializer.extend({
  extractErrors(store, typeClass, payload, id) {
    if (payload && typeof payload === 'object' && payload._problems) {
      payload = payload._problems;
      this.normalizeErrors(typeClass, payload);
    }
    return payload;
  }
});

extractId (modelClass, resourceHash) String

Module: ember-data
modelClass
Object
resourceHash
Object
returns
String

Returns the resource's ID.

extractMeta (store, modelClass, payload)

Module: ember-data
store
DS.Store
modelClass
DS.Model
payload
Object

extractMeta is used to deserialize any meta information in the adapter payload. By default Ember Data expects meta information to be located on the meta property of the payload object.

Example

app/serializers/post.js
import DS from 'ember-data';

export default DS.JSONSerializer.extend({
  extractMeta(store, typeClass, payload) {
    if (payload && payload.hasOwnProperty('_pagination')) {
      let meta = payload._pagination;
      delete payload._pagination;
      return meta;
    }
  }
});

extractPolymorphicRelationship (relationshipModelName, relationshipHash, relationshipOptions) Object

Module: ember-data
relationshipModelName
Object
relationshipHash
Object
relationshipOptions
Object
returns
Object

Returns a polymorphic relationship formatted as a JSON-API "relationship object".

http://jsonapi.org/format/#document-resource-object-relationships

relationshipOptions is a hash which contains more information about the polymorphic relationship which should be extracted:

  • resourceHash complete hash of the resource the relationship should be extracted from
  • relationshipKey key under which the value for the relationship is extracted from the resourceHash
  • relationshipMeta meta information about the relationship

extractRelationship (relationshipModelName, relationshipHash) Object

Module: ember-data
relationshipModelName
Object
relationshipHash
Object
returns
Object

Returns a relationship formatted as a JSON-API "relationship object".

http://jsonapi.org/format/#document-resource-object-relationships

extractRelationships (modelClass, resourceHash) Object

Module: ember-data
modelClass
Object
resourceHash
Object
returns
Object

Returns the resource's relationships formatted as a JSON-API "relationships object".

http://jsonapi.org/format/#document-resource-object-relationships

keyForAttribute (key, method) String

Module: ember-data
key
String
method
String
returns
String
normalized key

keyForAttribute can be used to define rules for how to convert an attribute name in your model to a key in your JSON.

Example

app/serializers/application.js
import DS from 'ember-data';
import { underscore } from '@ember/string';

export default DS.RESTSerializer.extend({
  keyForAttribute(attr, method) {
    return underscore(attr).toUpperCase();
  }
});
Module: ember-data
key
String
kind
String
`belongsTo` or `hasMany`
returns
String
normalized key

keyForLink can be used to define a custom key when deserializing link properties.

keyForRelationship (key, typeClass, method) String

Module: ember-data
key
String
typeClass
String
method
String
returns
String
normalized key

keyForRelationship can be used to define a custom key when serializing and deserializing relationship properties. By default JSONSerializer does not provide an implementation of this method.

Example

app/serializers/post.js
  import DS from 'ember-data';
  import { underscore } from '@ember/string';

  export default DS.JSONSerializer.extend({
    keyForRelationship(key, relationship, method) {
      return `rel_${underscore(key)}`;
    }
  });

modelNameFromPayloadKey (key) String

Module: ember-data
key
String
returns
String
the model's modelName

modelNameFromPayloadType (type) String public

Module: ember-data
type
String
returns
String
the model's modelName

normalize (typeClass, hash) Object

Module: ember-data
typeClass
DS.Model
hash
Object
returns
Object

Normalizes a part of the JSON payload returned by the server. You should override this method, munge the hash and call super if you have generic normalization to do.

It takes the type of the record that is being normalized (as a DS.Model class), the property where the hash was originally found, and the hash to normalize.

You can use this method, for example, to normalize underscored keys to camelized or other general-purpose normalizations.

Example

app/serializers/application.js
import DS from 'ember-data';
import { underscore } from '@ember/string';
import { get } from '@ember/object';

export default DS.JSONSerializer.extend({
  normalize(typeClass, hash) {
    var fields = get(typeClass, 'fields');

    fields.forEach(function(field) {
      var payloadField = underscore(field);
      if (field === payloadField) { return; }

      hash[field] = hash[payloadField];
      delete hash[payloadField];
    });

    return this._super.apply(this, arguments);
  }
});

normalizeArrayResponse (store, primaryModelClass, payload, id, requestType) Object

Module: ember-data

Available since v1.13.0

store
DS.Store
primaryModelClass
DS.Model
payload
Object
id
String|Number
requestType
String
returns
Object
JSON-API Document

normalizeCreateRecordResponse (store, primaryModelClass, payload, id, requestType) Object

Module: ember-data

Available since v1.13.0

store
DS.Store
primaryModelClass
DS.Model
payload
Object
id
String|Number
requestType
String
returns
Object
JSON-API Document

normalizeDeleteRecordResponse (store, primaryModelClass, payload, id, requestType) Object

Module: ember-data

Available since v1.13.0

store
DS.Store
primaryModelClass
DS.Model
payload
Object
id
String|Number
requestType
String
returns
Object
JSON-API Document

normalizeFindAllResponse (store, primaryModelClass, payload, id, requestType) Object

Module: ember-data

Available since v1.13.0

store
DS.Store
primaryModelClass
DS.Model
payload
Object
id
String|Number
requestType
String
returns
Object
JSON-API Document

normalizeFindBelongsToResponse (store, primaryModelClass, payload, id, requestType) Object

Module: ember-data

Available since v1.13.0

store
DS.Store
primaryModelClass
DS.Model
payload
Object
id
String|Number
requestType
String
returns
Object
JSON-API Document

normalizeFindHasManyResponse (store, primaryModelClass, payload, id, requestType) Object

Module: ember-data

Available since v1.13.0

store
DS.Store
primaryModelClass
DS.Model
payload
Object
id
String|Number
requestType
String
returns
Object
JSON-API Document

normalizeFindManyResponse (store, primaryModelClass, payload, id, requestType) Object

Module: ember-data

Available since v1.13.0

store
DS.Store
primaryModelClass
DS.Model
payload
Object
id
String|Number
requestType
String
returns
Object
JSON-API Document

normalizeFindRecordResponse (store, primaryModelClass, payload, id, requestType) Object

Module: ember-data

Available since v1.13.0

store
DS.Store
primaryModelClass
DS.Model
payload
Object
id
String|Number
requestType
String
returns
Object
JSON-API Document

normalizeQueryRecordResponse (store, primaryModelClass, payload, id, requestType) Object

Module: ember-data

Available since v1.13.0

store
DS.Store
primaryModelClass
DS.Model
payload
Object
id
String|Number
requestType
String
returns
Object
JSON-API Document

normalizeQueryResponse (store, primaryModelClass, payload, id, requestType) Object

Module: ember-data

Available since v1.13.0

store
DS.Store
primaryModelClass
DS.Model
payload
Object
id
String|Number
requestType
String
returns
Object
JSON-API Document

normalizeResponse (store, primaryModelClass, payload, id, requestType) Object

Module: ember-data

Available since v1.13.0

store
DS.Store
primaryModelClass
DS.Model
payload
Object
id
String|Number
requestType
String
returns
Object
JSON-API Document

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

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

This method delegates to a more specific normalize method based on the requestType.

To override this method with a custom one, make sure to call return this._super(store, primaryModelClass, payload, id, requestType) with your pre-processed data.

Here's an example of using normalizeResponse manually:

socket.on('message', function(message) {
  var data = message.data;
  var modelClass = store.modelFor(data.modelName);
  var serializer = store.serializerFor(data.modelName);
  var normalized = serializer.normalizeSingleResponse(store, modelClass, data, data.id);

  store.push(normalized);
});

normalizeSaveResponse (store, primaryModelClass, payload, id, requestType) Object

Module: ember-data

Available since v1.13.0

store
DS.Store
primaryModelClass
DS.Model
payload
Object
id
String|Number
requestType
String
returns
Object
JSON-API Document

normalizeSingleResponse (store, primaryModelClass, payload, id, requestType) Object

Module: ember-data

Available since v1.13.0

store
DS.Store
primaryModelClass
DS.Model
payload
Object
id
String|Number
requestType
String
returns
Object
JSON-API Document

normalizeUpdateRecordResponse (store, primaryModelClass, payload, id, requestType) Object

Module: ember-data

Available since v1.13.0

store
DS.Store
primaryModelClass
DS.Model
payload
Object
id
String|Number
requestType
String
returns
Object
JSON-API Document

serialize (snapshot, options) Object

Module: ember-data
snapshot
DS.Snapshot
options
Object
returns
Object
json

Called when a record is saved in order to convert the record into JSON.

By default, it creates a JSON object with a key for each attribute and belongsTo relationship.

For example, consider this model:

app/models/comment.js
import DS from 'ember-data';

export default DS.Model.extend({
  title: DS.attr(),
  body: DS.attr(),

  author: DS.belongsTo('user')
});

The default serialization would create a JSON object like:

{
  "title": "Rails is unagi",
  "body": "Rails? Omakase? O_O",
  "author": 12
}

By default, attributes are passed through as-is, unless you specified an attribute type (DS.attr('date')). If you specify a transform, the JavaScript value will be serialized when inserted into the JSON hash.

By default, belongs-to relationships are converted into IDs when inserted into the JSON hash.

IDs

serialize takes an options hash with a single option: includeId. If this option is true, serialize will, by default include the ID in the JSON object it builds.

The adapter passes in includeId: true when serializing a record for createRecord, but not for updateRecord.

Customization

Your server may expect a different JSON format than the built-in serialization format.

In that case, you can implement serialize yourself and return a JSON hash of your choosing.

app/serializers/post.js
import DS from 'ember-data';

export default DS.JSONSerializer.extend({
  serialize(snapshot, options) {
    var json = {
      POST_TTL: snapshot.attr('title'),
      POST_BDY: snapshot.attr('body'),
      POST_CMS: snapshot.hasMany('comments', { ids: true })
    };

    if (options.includeId) {
      json.POST_ID_ = snapshot.id;
    }

    return json;
  }
});

Customizing an App-Wide Serializer

If you want to define a serializer for your entire application, you'll probably want to use eachAttribute and eachRelationship on the record.

app/serializers/application.js
import DS from 'ember-data';
import { singularize } from 'ember-inflector';

export default DS.JSONSerializer.extend({
  serialize(snapshot, options) {
    var json = {};

    snapshot.eachAttribute(function(name) {
      json[serverAttributeName(name)] = snapshot.attr(name);
    });

    snapshot.eachRelationship(function(name, relationship) {
      if (relationship.kind === 'hasMany') {
        json[serverHasManyName(name)] = snapshot.hasMany(name, { ids: true });
      }
    });

    if (options.includeId) {
      json.ID_ = snapshot.id;
    }

    return json;
  }
});

function serverAttributeName(attribute) {
  return attribute.underscore().toUpperCase();
}

function serverHasManyName(name) {
  return serverAttributeName(singularize(name)) + "_IDS";
}

This serializer will generate JSON that looks like this:

{
  "TITLE": "Rails is omakase",
  "BODY": "Yep. Omakase.",
  "COMMENT_IDS": [ 1, 2, 3 ]
}

Tweaking the Default JSON

If you just want to do some small tweaks on the default JSON, you can call super first and make the tweaks on the returned JSON.

app/serializers/post.js
import DS from 'ember-data';

export default DS.JSONSerializer.extend({
  serialize(snapshot, options) {
    var json = this._super(...arguments);

    json.subject = json.title;
    delete json.title;

    return json;
  }
});

serializeAttribute (snapshot, json, key, attribute)

Module: ember-data
snapshot
DS.Snapshot
json
Object
key
String
attribute
Object

serializeAttribute can be used to customize how DS.attr properties are serialized

For example if you wanted to ensure all your attributes were always serialized as properties on an attributes object you could write:

app/serializers/application.js
import DS from 'ember-data';

export default DS.JSONSerializer.extend({
  serializeAttribute(snapshot, json, key, attributes) {
    json.attributes = json.attributes || {};
    this._super(snapshot, json.attributes, key, attributes);
  }
});

serializeBelongsTo (snapshot, json, relationship)

Module: ember-data
snapshot
DS.Snapshot
json
Object
relationship
Object

serializeBelongsTo can be used to customize how DS.belongsTo properties are serialized.

Example

app/serializers/post.js
import DS from 'ember-data';
import { isNone } from '@ember/utils';

export default DS.JSONSerializer.extend({
  serializeBelongsTo(snapshot, json, relationship) {
    var key = relationship.key;
    var belongsTo = snapshot.belongsTo(key);

    key = this.keyForRelationship ? this.keyForRelationship(key, "belongsTo", "serialize") : key;

    json[key] = isNone(belongsTo) ? belongsTo : belongsTo.record.toJSON();
  }
});

serializeHasMany (snapshot, json, relationship)

Module: ember-data
snapshot
DS.Snapshot
json
Object
relationship
Object

serializeHasMany can be used to customize how DS.hasMany properties are serialized.

Example

app/serializers/post.js
import DS from 'ember-data';

export default DS.JSONSerializer.extend({
  serializeHasMany(snapshot, json, relationship) {
    var key = relationship.key;
    if (key === 'comments') {
      return;
    } else {
      this._super(...arguments);
    }
  }
});

serializeId (snapshot, json, primaryKey) public

Module: ember-data
snapshot
DS.Snapshot
json
Object
primaryKey
String

serializeId can be used to customize how id is serialized For example, your server may expect integer datatype of id

By default the snapshot's id (String) is set on the json hash via json[primaryKey] = snapshot.id.

app/serializers/application.js
import DS from 'ember-data';

export default DS.JSONSerializer.extend({
serializeId(snapshot, json, primaryKey) {
    var id = snapshot.id;
    json[primaryKey] = parseInt(id, 10);
  }
});

serializeIntoHash (hash, typeClass, snapshot, options)

Module: ember-data
hash
Object
typeClass
DS.Model
snapshot
DS.Snapshot
options
Object

You can use this method to customize how a serialized record is added to the complete JSON hash to be sent to the server. By default the JSON Serializer does not namespace the payload and just sends the raw serialized JSON object. If your server expects namespaced keys, you should consider using the RESTSerializer. Otherwise you can override this method to customize how the record is added to the hash. The hash property should be modified by reference.

For example, your server may expect underscored root objects.

app/serializers/application.js
import DS from 'ember-data';
import { decamelize } from '@ember/string';

export default DS.RESTSerializer.extend({
  serializeIntoHash(data, type, snapshot, options) {
    var root = decamelize(type.modelName);
    data[root] = this.serialize(snapshot, options);
  }
});

serializePolymorphicType (snapshot, json, relationship)

Module: ember-data
snapshot
DS.Snapshot
json
Object
relationship
Object

You can use this method to customize how polymorphic objects are serialized. Objects are considered to be polymorphic if { polymorphic: true } is pass as the second argument to the DS.belongsTo function.

Example

app/serializers/comment.js
import DS from 'ember-data';
import { isNone } from '@ember/utils';

export default DS.JSONSerializer.extend({
  serializePolymorphicType(snapshot, json, relationship) {
    var key = relationship.key;
    var belongsTo = snapshot.belongsTo(key);

    key = this.keyForAttribute ? this.keyForAttribute(key, 'serialize') : key;

    if (isNone(belongsTo)) {
      json[key + '_type'] = null;
    } else {
      json[key + '_type'] = belongsTo.modelName;
    }
  }
});

shouldSerializeHasMany (snapshot, key, relationshipType) Boolean

Module: ember-data
snapshot
DS.Snapshot
key
String
relationshipType
String
returns
Boolean
true if the hasMany relationship should be serialized

Check if the given hasMany relationship should be serialized

© 2020 Yehuda Katz, Tom Dale and Ember.js contributors
Licensed under the MIT License.
https://api.emberjs.com/ember-data/2.18/classes/DS.JSONSerializer/methods