Geddy Ember Serializer

Geddy and Ember.js Play Together!

If you're using the Model ORM, you may be using the Geddy framework. You also might be using it on its own!

Geddy has some great nested object retrieval, but Ember-Data requires slightly differently structured data. This module creates a bridge between the two data structures.

  var serializer = require('geddy-model-serializer');

  // You must call init at least once, passing in a Model instance,
  // with your schema loaded into it:
  serializer.init( geddy.model );

  geddy.model.User.first({}, { includes: 'Books' }, function (err, user){
    if (err) throw err;

    /* Model returns nested relationships in a format like this:

    var user === {
      id: 1,
      name: "Joe Schmoe",
      books: [
        {
          id:54,
          title: "Huck Finn"
        },
        {
          id:99,
          title: "The Peripheral"
        }
      ]
    };

    */


    /* With this module, we can structure the same data like this: */
    serializer.init(); // Call between serializations to clear the store out.
    serizer.digest( user ); // Feed it as many models as you want, with relationships loaded!
    var result = serializer.serialize(); // Does the actual conversion on this function call:
    console.dir( result );

    /* Result would look like this:

      var result = {
        users:[
          {
            id: 1,
            name: "Joe Schmoe",
            books: [54, 99]
          }
        ],

        books:[
          {
            id:54,
            title: "Huck Finn"
          },
          {
            id:99,
            title: "The Peripheral"
          }
        ]
      }

    */
  });
}