How to use multiple models with a single route in EmberJS / Ember Data?

Question

From reading the docs, it looks like you have to (or should) assign a model to a route like so:

App.PostRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
    model: function() {
         


        

Answer 1

You could use the beforeModel or afterModel hooks as these are always called, even if model is not called because you're using dynamic segments.

As per the asynchronous routing docs:

The model hook covers many use cases for pause-on-promise transitions, but sometimes you'll need the help of the related hooks beforeModel and afterModel. The most common reason for this is that if you're transitioning into a route with a dynamic URL segment via {{link-to}} or transitionTo (as opposed to a transition caused by a URL change), the model for the route you're transitioning into will have already been specified (e.g. {{#link-to 'article' article}} or this.transitionTo('article', article)), in which case the model hook won't get called. In these cases, you'll need to make use of either the beforeModel or afterModel hook to house any logic while the router is still gathering all of the route's models to perform a transition.

So say you have a themes property on your SiteController, you could have something like this:

themes: null,
afterModel: function(site, transition) {
  return this.store.find('themes').then(function(result) {
    this.set('themes', result.content);
  }.bind(this));
},
setupController: function(controller, model) {
  controller.set('model', model);
  controller.set('themes', this.get('themes'));
}