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ember-api-requests

Service for making custom requests to your backend API.

This service uses both ember-ajax and ember-data for building the URL.
So instead of having to manually create a request URL which may point to one of your model endpoints on the backend, you can pass a model name or instance and this service will generate the right URL prefix for you.
This way you can make custom requests to your backend API the easy way.

For basic understanding please refer to the ember-ajax documentation first.

Usage

To use the service, inject it into your route, component, service or other part of your ember app.

Suppose your application adapter has /api as namespace and you have a model called user and you want to check if an username already exists:

import Service, { inject as service } from '@ember/service';

export default Service.extend({
  api: service(),
  
  usernameExists(username) {
    return this.get('api').request('check-username', {
      model: 'user',
      params: {
        username: username
      }
    });
  }
});

When calling above method with username john, a request will be made to /api/users/check-username?username=john.

The request takes a path as first parameter and an options object as second parameter. The options object is the object you would normally pass to a jQuery ajax request, but has some additional reserved properties (see API section below). The service will create the URL from the given model name and the corresponding adapter. The params object will be used to add additional query parameters to the URL.

HTTP methods

All basic HTTP methods are supported:

request('action', { model: 'user' }) // GET request to /users/action
request('action', { model: user })   // GET request to /users/1/action (asuming user is a model with id 1)
post('action', { model: 'user' })    // POST request to /users/action
put('action', { model: user })       // PUT request to /users/1/action (asuming user is a model with id 1)
patch('action', { model: user })     // PATCH request to /users/1/action (asuming user is a model with id 1)
del('action', { model: user })       // DELETE request to /users/1/action (asuming user is a model with id 1)

API

Because this service uses ember-ajax in the background you are able to do anything ember-ajax can do, like setting a custom host or custom request headers. See the ember-ajax documentation for more details. Below follows the extra API this service provides.

Request options

All below options are optional.

option	type	description
model	Ember Data Model name or instance	Used for constructing the URL. When passing an instance, the id of the instance will be added to the generated URL. The service will use the underlying Ember Data Adapter of the model to construct the URL. If this option is omitted, the application adapter will be used to construct the URL.
jsonData	Ojbect	Used for adding a JSON request body. Acts the same as defining a data object you would normally use when making a jQuery ajax request but additionally sets the content type of the request to application/json;charset=UTF-8. This option is only useful when doing a post, put, or patch request.
params	Object	Used to add extra query parameters to the URL. Always use this property when you want to add query parameters to the URL. This differs from jQuery ajax requests, where a data property may be set for GET requests to add query parameters to the URL.
requestType	String	Used by Ember Data to construct the URL. Defaults to findRecord when model is an instance and findAll when model is a model name.

Service methods

name	description
buildURL(path, options)	The function used by the request methods mentioned above to create a request URL.

Examples

this.get('api').post('authenticate', {
  data: {
	username: 'john',
	password: 'password'
  }
});

POST request to /authenticate with url encoded form data username=john&password=password

this.get('api').request('logout');

GET request to /logout

this.get('api').post('notify', {
  model: user,
  jsonData: {
	text: 'Hello'
  }
});

POST request to /users/{id}/notify with content type application/json;charset=UTF-8 and body {"text":"Hello"}

this.get('api').put('split', {
  model: document,
  params: {
	page: [2, 4]
  }
});

PUT request to /documents/{id}/split?page[]=2&page[]=4

License

This project is released under the MIT license.