Serializers & Adapters

• Guidelines
• Gotchas

Guidelines

• Prepend internal functions with an underscore to differentiate from Ember methods _getUrl
• Consider using the named-path adapter if the model name is part of the request path
• Utilize the serializer to remove sending model attributes that do not correspond to an API parameter. Example in key serializer

export default class SomeSerializer extends ApplicationSerializer {
  attrs = {
    attrName: { serialize: false },
  };
}

Note: this will remove the attribute when calling snapshot.serialize() even if the method is called within the serialize method where custom logic may be written

Gotchas

• The JSON serializer removes attributes with empty arrays Example in MFA serializer