Linked Resources

[AlJohri]

I saw this issue regarding nested resources: #40

I'm trying to do something similar but just link resources instead.

If a single "listing" object looks like:

URL: http://nucraigslist.herokuapp.com/api/v1/listing/798128320234094/

{
    "approved": false,
    "buy_or_sell": "sell",
    "category": "tickets",
    "created_time": "2014-11-04T23:58:36",
    "id": "798128320234094",
    "message": "Selling two Capital Cities tickets for their show this Saturday at The Rave in Milwaukee. $15 each OBO.",
    "parsed": true,
    "resource_uri": "/api/v1/listing/798128320234094/",
    "seller": "/api/v1/seller/10203068149729605/",
    "sold": false,
    "type": "",
    "updated_time": "2014-11-05T01:25:36"
}

EDIT: just wanted to add that I can easily change "seller": "/api/v1/seller/10203068149729605/" into a "seller_id": 10203068149729605

URL: http://nucraigslist.herokuapp.com/api/v1/seller/10203068149729605/

{
    "id": "10203068149729605",
    "name": "Zach Silva",
    "resource_uri": "/api/v1/seller/10203068149729605/"
}

and I have two resources set up:

app.factory('Listing', ['DS', function (DS) {
  return DS.defineResource({ 
    name: 'listing', 
    baseUrl: '/api/v1',
    deserialize: function(name, data) { 
        return data.data.objects;
    }
  });
}]);

app.factory('Seller', ['DS', function (DS) {
  return DS.defineResource({ 
    name: 'seller', 
    baseUrl: 'api/v1',
    deserialize: function(name, data) { 
      return data.data.objects;
    }
  });
}]);

how can I link the listing and seller objects so if have the following code:

Listing.findAll();
Seller.findAll();
Listing.bindAll($scope, 'listings', {});
Seller.bindAll($scope, 'sellers', {});
var listing = Listing.filter({limit: 1})[0]

how can I get listing.seller to equal the Seller object?

[AlJohri]

Ah, I didn't realize js-data docs applied to angular-data.

Reading http://www.js-data.io/v1.0.0-alpha-3-0/docs/relations I figured it out.

app.factory('Listing', ['DS', function (DS) {
  return DS.defineResource({
    name: 'listing',
    baseUrl: '/api/v1',
    deserialize: function(name, data) {
      return data.data.objects;
    },
    relations: {
      belongsTo: {
        seller: {
          localField: 'seller',
          localKey: 'sellerId'
        }
      }
    }
  });
}]);

app.factory('Seller', ['DS', function (DS) {
  return DS.defineResource({
    name: 'seller',
    baseUrl: '/api/v1',
    deserialize: function(name, data) {
      return data.data.objects;
    },
    relations: {
      hasMany: {
        listing: {
          localField: 'listings',
          foreignKey: 'sellerId'
        }
      },
    }
  });
}]);

[jmdobry]

This kind of question would be better asked on the mailing list

[AlJohri]

thanks for letting me know!