How do you load data into Ember Data from a Socket.IO response?

Question

I'm writing an app which leverages Ember.js, with Ember Data, and Socket.IO through Node.js. I'm trying to figure out the best way to receive data from a socket response and load it into my Ember Data store, such as this:

window.socket = io.connect('http://localhost');

socket.on('action here', function(response) {
  // how to load "response" JSON data into Ember Data store from here...?
});

Is the best (or only good) solution to write a custom DS.Adapter? Or is there another good, maintainable way to accomplish this?

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 27 '13 at 15:21

The best way is to write your own adaptor, but if you only need to load models(no save) you can get away with the adaptor's load method - something like this:

socket.on('single-model', function(response) {
    DS.defaultStore.load(response);
});

socket.on('multiple-models', function(response) {
    for(i in response){
        DS.defaultStore.load(response[i]);
    }
});

Define the adaptor as FixtureAdaptor.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

For the record, I ended up going with the answer proposed here:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/14508316/1470194

Using that Ember.Instrumentation technique, I was able to facilitate calls to my controllers and access my store that way.

I realize that writing a custom adaptor may be necessary in many case, but it was beyond the required scope of my project, so this solution ended up being perfect.

How do you load data into Ember Data from a Socket.IO response?

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