Question

Currently my basic hello world ember app has the following model objects

ChatApp.User = Em.Object.extend({
    username: null,
    other: null
});

ChatApp.Message = Em.Object.extend({
    message: null
});

I’d like to improve this to be User HasMany Messages -can this be done as is? If not what is the preferred approach today in 0.9.8?

Answer 1

I would use ember-data.

It would give something like:

ChatApp.User = DS.Model.extend({
  username: DS.attr('string'),
  messages: DS.hasMany('ChatApp.Message')
});

ChatApp.Message = DS.Model.extend({
  message: DS.attr('string')
  user: DS.belongsTo('ChatApp.User')
});