How to represent arrays within ember-data models?

Question

Is it necessary to use DS.hasMany pointing to a DS.Model when a model contains an array? Even if the array elements are not really models (no IDs o

Answer 1

If you absolutely need a custom data structure to be exchanged with your server, you can enrich DS.attr.transforms and declare a new array codec, for example.

See source code for existing attribute codecs implementation. It is a good place to start adding your own.