Pass payload through serializer?

[adambedford]

I have a non-REST endpoint users/invite and I'm trying to figure how to use this library to send a payload to that endpoint using JSONAPI format. My Application serializer uses JSONAPISerializer from ember-custom-actions already (I'm using this library in a couple other places already).

I'd like user.invite() to behave the same as user.save() in the sense that the User model is serialized (JSONAPI format) and sent as params to the endpoint.

On my User model, I have the following property:

invite: resourceAction("invite", { method: "POST" })

and in my invite action, I'm doing this:

invite(user) {
  user.invite(user.toJSON()).then(...)
}

The problem is that the payload doesn't pass through the ApplicationSerializer. I feel like I'm missing something obvious here!

[Exelord]

Yes, if you would like use serializers and adapter you have to use customAction instead of resourceAction. It should be well documented in the readme. If it's not, give me some hints and I will improve it. :)

customAction - is avaialble in v2.0.0

[Exelord]

Oh, sorry! you want to serialize your payload by the serializer. I think this is not implemented. You need to override dataForCustomAction and specify there your own payload serializing correctly a model by yourself, or model's serializer.

So that you can have pure user.invite() and all logic related to it inside of the adapter

But, a... I think we are missing some serializer integration to allow for custom normalization and serialization. We should try to cover it.

[Exelord]

You can also try https://emberjs.com/api/ember-data/3.0/classes/DS.Model/methods/serialize?anchor=serialize instead of toJSON()

[Exelord]

Feel free to reopen if needed

[bertdeblock]

I'm also in favour of using serializers to determine the correct (JSON API) payload. This would be more in line with Ember Data. Adapters take care of the request, serializers take care of the payload.

[bertdeblock]

An additional question kind of related to this:
Is there a better way to access the model's data inside dataForCustomAction other than using store.peekRecord and params.modelId? Feels kind of hacky. For instance urlForCustomAction has a snapshot parameter that can be used.