A HasManyReference is a low level API that allows users and addon author to perform meta-operations on a has-many relationship.

The link Ember Data will use to fetch or reload this has-many relationship.

Example

export default DS.Model.extend({
  comments: DS.hasMany({ async: true })
});

var post = store.push({
  data: {
    type: 'post',
    id: 1,
    relationships: {
      comments: {
        links: {
          related: '/posts/1/comments'
        }
      }
    }
  }
});

var commentsRef = post.hasMany('comments');

commentsRef.link(); // '/posts/1/comments'

Loads the relationship if it is not already loaded. If the relationship is already loaded this method does not trigger a new load.

Example

export default DS.Model.extend({
  comments: DS.hasMany({ async: true })
});

var post = store.push({
  data: {
    type: 'post',
    id: 1,
    relationships: {
      comments: {
        data: [{ type: 'comment', id: 1 }]
      }
    }
  }
});

var commentsRef = post.hasMany('comments');

commentsRef.load().then(function(comments) {
  //...
});

The link Ember Data will use to fetch or reload this has-many relationship.

Example

export default DS.Model.extend({
  comments: DS.hasMany({ async: true })
});

var post = store.push({
  data: {
    type: 'post',
    id: 1,
    relationships: {
      comments: {
        links: {
          related: {
            href: '/posts/1/comments',
            meta: {
              count: 10
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
});

var commentsRef = post.hasMany('comments');

commentsRef.meta(); // { count: 10 }

push can be used to update the data in the relationship and Ember Data will treat the new data as the canonical value of this relationship on the backend.

Example

export default DS.Model.extend({
  comments: DS.hasMany({ async: true })
});

var post = store.push({
  data: {
    type: 'post',
    id: 1,
    relationships: {
      comments: {
        data: [{ type: 'comment', id: 1 }]
      }
    }
  }
});

var commentsRef = post.hasMany('comments');

commentsRef.ids(); // ['1']

commentsRef.push([
  [{ type: 'comment', id: 2 }],
  [{ type: 'comment', id: 3 }],
])

commentsRef.ids(); // ['2', '3']

Reloads this has-many relationship.

Example

export default DS.Model.extend({
  comments: DS.hasMany({ async: true })
});

var post = store.push({
  data: {
    type: 'post',
    id: 1,
    relationships: {
      comments: {
        data: [{ type: 'comment', id: 1 }]
      }
    }
  }
});

var commentsRef = post.hasMany('comments');

commentsRef.reload().then(function(comments) {
  //...
});

ids() returns an array of the record ids in this relationship.

Example

export default DS.Model.extend({
  comments: DS.hasMany({ async: true })
});

var post = store.push({
  data: {
    type: 'post',
    id: 1,
    relationships: {
      comments: {
        data: [{ type: 'comment', id: 1 }]
      }
    }
  }
});

var commentsRef = post.hasMany('comments');

commentsRef.ids(); // ['1']

value() sycronously returns the current value of the has-many relationship. Unlike record.get('relationshipName'), calling value() on a reference does not trigger a fetch if the async relationship is not yet loaded. If the relationship is not loaded it will always return null.

Example

export default DS.Model.extend({
  comments: DS.hasMany({ async: true })
});

var post = store.push({
  data: {
    type: 'post',
    id: 1,
    relationships: {
      comments: {
        data: [{ type: 'comment', id: 1 }]
      }
    }
  }
});

var commentsRef = post.hasMany('comments');

post.get('comments').then(function(comments) {
  commentsRef.value() === comments
})