AJAX promise without Ember Data

Question

I have decided to not use ember-data as it\'s not production ready and still changing. My app only needs to make a few ajax requests anyway so it shouldn\'t make too big of

Answer 1

I'd use Ember.Deferred instead of returning an empty array as mentioned before.

App.User.reopenClass({
  getAllUsers: function() {
    var dfd = Ember.Deferred.create();
    var users = [];

    $.ajax({
        url: "/api/get_users",
    }).then(function(response) {
        response.forEach(function(user){
            var model = App.User.create(user); 
            users.addObject(model);
        });
        dfd.resolve(users);
    });
    return dfd;
  }
});

In your model hook all you have to do is this

model: function(){
  return App.User.getAllUsers();
}

Ember is smart enought and knows how to handle the promise you return, once it's resolved the model will be correctly set, you can also return a jQuery promise but it will give you some weird behavior.