Deliver Audacious Web Apps with Ember 2

Adapt to a Nonconventional API

As built so far, the EmberNote API has used the conventions Ember Data expects from an API. However, not every API you encounter will follow these conventions. Let’s look at how to make Ember Data fit such an API.

Adding Request Headers to Your API

We’ll start by exploring how to use additional API features by modifying JSONAPIAdapter as follows:

ch6/ember-note/app/adapters/application.js

import DS from 'ember-data';

export default DS.JSONAPIAdapter.extend({
  headers: function() {
    if(this.get('session.user')) {
      return {
        'username' : this.get('session.user').get('name')
      };
    }
  }.property('session.user')
});

This simple change allows you to add request headers to your ...