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

Interestingly all the other 4 answers to this question have almost identical deserialize and serialize functions, so you could simplify things down to:

import Em from 'ember'
import DS from 'ember-data'

# Presumably based on these answers: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12168570/how-to-represent-arrays-within-ember-data-models
# All we need to do is always make sure an array is returned from serialize or deserialize

toArray = (data) ->
  switch Em.typeOf(data)
    when 'array'  then data
    when 'string' then JSON.parse(data)
    else []

export default DS.Transform.extend
  deserialize: toArray
  serialize: toArray

This is using ember-cli-coffees6 for coffeescript with import/export support