Function

hasMany (type, options) Ember.computed public

Defined in ../model/addon/-private/has-many.js:12

type

String

(optional) type of the relationship

options

Object

(optional) a hash of options

returns

Ember.computed

relationship

hasMany is used to define One-To-Many and Many-To-Many relationships on a Model.

hasMany takes an optional hash as a second parameter, currently supported options are:

• async: A boolean value used to explicitly declare this to be an async relationship. The default is true.
• inverse: A string used to identify the inverse property on a related model.
• polymorphic A boolean value to mark the relationship as polymorphic

One-To-Many

To declare a one-to-many relationship between two models, use belongsTo in combination with hasMany, like this:

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import Model, { hasMany } from '@ember-data/model';

export default Model.extend({
  comments: hasMany('comment')
});

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import Model, { belongsTo } from '@ember-data/model';

export default Model.extend({
  post: belongsTo('post')
});

Many-To-Many

To declare a many-to-many relationship between two models, use hasMany:

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import Model, { hasMany } from '@ember-data/model';

export default Model.extend({
  tags: hasMany('tag')
});

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import Model, { hasMany } from '@ember-data/model';

export default Model.extend({
  posts: hasMany('post')
});

You can avoid passing a string as the first parameter. In that case Ember Data will infer the type from the singularized key name.

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import Model, { hasMany } from '@ember-data/model';

export default Model.extend({
  tags: hasMany()
});

will lookup for a Tag type.

Explicit Inverses

Ember Data will do its best to discover which relationships map to one another. In the one-to-many code above, for example, Ember Data can figure out that changing the comments relationship should update the post relationship on the inverse because post is the only relationship to that model.

However, sometimes you may have multiple belongsTo/hasMany for the same type. You can specify which property on the related model is the inverse using hasMany's inverse option:

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import Model, { belongsTo } from '@ember-data/model';

export default Model.extend({
  onePost: belongsTo('post'),
  twoPost: belongsTo('post'),
  redPost: belongsTo('post'),
  bluePost: belongsTo('post')
});

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import Model, { hasMany } from '@ember-data/model';

export default Model.extend({
  comments: hasMany('comment', {
    inverse: 'redPost'
  })
});

You can also specify an inverse on a belongsTo, which works how you'd expect.

Sync relationships

Ember Data resolves sync relationships with the related resources available in its local store, hence it is expected these resources to be loaded before or along-side the primary resource.

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import Model, { hasMany } from '@ember-data/model';

export default Model.extend({
  comments: hasMany('comment', {
    async: false
  })
});

In contrast to async relationship, accessing a sync relationship will always return a ManyArray instance containing the existing local resources. But it will error on access when any of the known related resources have not been loaded.

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post.get('comments').forEach((comment) => {

});

If you are using links with sync relationships, you have to use ref.reload to fetch the resources.