Ember-data send request with capital letter

Question

I have a problem with ember-data. I have a model called "optionValue". When I save my model, it will send the following url to my server :

www.myapi.com/optionValues

this doesn't work because of the "V". I would need the request to be all lowercase. Anyone has an idea on how I should proceed? I have tried multiple thing on the back end, but there is nothing to do. Anyway, I don't think that it is ever a good idea to have capital letter in an URL.

Cheers.

Answer 1

it seems like Ember just pluralizes the model name. You can change this by overriding the pathForType function on your adapter (I'm assuming you are using the default RESTAdapter).

    DS.RESTAdapter.reopen({
      pathForType: function(type) {
        var decamelized = Ember.String.decamelize(type);
        return Ember.String.pluralize(decamelized);
      };
    });

Also see the api docs for pathForType : http://emberjs.com/api/data/classes/DS.RESTAdapter.html#method_pathForType

If you're using Rails as a backend it would be wise to use ActiveModelAdapter which includes this behaviour for pathForType amongst other things ;)

Answer 2

I kept digging and finally found the answer to my own questin. The RESTAdapter has a buildUrl method. I simply

DS.RESTAdapter.reopen({
    buildURL: function(record, suffix) {
      return this._super(record,suffix).toLowerCase();
    }
});