Class SchemaService

public
Defined in: ../../ember-data-types/q/schema-service.ts:8
Module: @ember-data/store

A SchemaDefinitionService implementation provides the ability to query for various information about a resource in an abstract manner.

How an implementation determines this information is left up to the implementation, this means that schema information could be lazily populated, derived-on-demand, or progressively enhanced during the course of an application's runtime.

The implementation provided to work with @ember-data/model makes use of the static schema properties on those classes to respond to these queries; however, that is not a necessary approach. For instance, Schema information could be sideloaded or pre-flighted for API calls, resulting in no need to bundle and ship potentially large and expensive JSON or JS schemas to pull information from.

To register a custom schema implementation, extend the store service or lookup and register the schema service first thing on app-boot. Example below shows extending the service.

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import Store from '@ember-data/store';
import CustomSchemas from './custom-schemas';

export default class extends Store {
  constructor(...args) {
    super(...args);
    this.registerSchemaDefinitionService(new CustomSchemas());
  }
}

At runtime, both the Store and the StoreWrapper provide access to this service via the getSchemaDefinitionService() method.

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export default class extends Component {
  @service store;

 get attributes() {
   return this.store
     .getSchemaDefinitionService()
     .attributesDefinitionFor(this.args.dataType);
 }
}

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attributesDefinitionFor (}) AttributesSchema public

Module: @ember-data/store

Defined in ../ember-data-types/q/schema-service.ts:69

}
RecordIdentifier| type: string
identifier
returns
AttributesSchema

Returns definitions for all properties of the specified resource that are considered "attributes". Generally these are properties that are not related to book-keeping state on the client and do not represent a linkage to another resource.

The return value should be a dictionary of key:value pairs where the key is the attribute or property's name and value is an object with at least the property name which should also match key.

Optionally, this object may also specify type, which should be a string reference to a transform, and options which should be dictionary in which any key:value pairs are permissable.

For instance, when using @ember-data/model, the following attribute definition:

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class extends Model {
  @attr firstName;
}

Would be returned as:

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{
  greeting: { name: 'greeting', type: 'string', options: { defaultValue: 'hello' } },
  birthday: { name: 'birthday', type: 'date' },
  firstName: { name: 'firstName' }
}

doesTypeExist (type) Boolean public

Module: @ember-data/store

Defined in ../ember-data-types/q/schema-service.ts:59

type
String
returns
Boolean

Queries whether the schema-definition-service recognizes type as a resource type

relationshipsDefinitionFor (}) RelationshipsSchema public

Module: @ember-data/store

Defined in ../ember-data-types/q/schema-service.ts:112

}
RecordIdentifier| type: string
identifier
returns
RelationshipsSchema

Returns definitions for all properties of the specified resource that are considered "relationships". Generally these are properties that represent a linkage to another resource.

The return value should be a dictionary of key:value pairs where the key is the relationship or property's name and value is an object with at least the following properties:

  • name which should also match the key used in the dictionary.

  • kind which should be either belongsTo or hasMany

  • type which should be the related resource's string "type"

  • options which should be a dictionary allowing any key but with at least the below keys present.

  • options.async a boolean representing whether data for this relationship is typically loaded on-demand.

  • options.inverse a string or null representing the field name / key of the corresponding relationship on the inverse resource.

Additionally the following options properties are optional. See Polymorphic Relationships

  • options.polymorphic a boolean representing whether multiple resource types can be used to satisfy this relationship.
  • options.as a string representing the abstract type that the concrete side of a relationship must specify when fulfilling a polymorphic inverse.

For example, the following Model using @ember-data/model would generate this relationships definition by default:

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class User extends Model {
  @belongsto('user', { async: false, inverse: null }) bestFriend;
  @hasmany('pet', { async: false, polymorphic: true, inverse: 'owner' }) pets;
}

Which would be returned as

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{
  bestFriend: {
    name: 'bestFriend',
    kind: 'belongsTo',
    type: 'user',
    options: {
      async: false,
      inverse: null
    }
  },
  friends: {
    name: 'friends',
    kind: 'hasMany',
    type: 'user',
    options: {
      async: true,
      inverse: 'friends'
    }
  },
  pets: {
    name: 'pets',
    kind: 'hasMany',
    type: 'pet',
    options: {
      async: false,
      polymorphic: true,
      inverse: 'owner'
    }
  },
}