Pro Ember Data: Getting Ember Data to Work with Your API

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D. TangPro Ember Datahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6561-1_3

3. API Response Formats and Serializers

David Tang¹  

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Playa Vista, CA, USA

 

A serializer in Ember Data is used to format data as it is transferred between the client and the server. When a serializer formats response data, this process is called normalization . In contrast, when a serializer formats data sent to the server, this process is called serialization .

Ember Data comes with three built-in serializers:

1. 1.

   JSONSerializer

    
2. 2.

   RESTSerializer

    
3. 3.

   JSONAPISerializer

    

Each one of these serializers targets a specific API payload structure. In order to get a custom API working with Ember Data, it ...