Finding Records

Use store.findRecord() to retrieve a record by its type and ID. This will return a promise that fulfills with the requested record:

var post = this.store.findRecord('post', 1); // => GET /posts/1

Use store.peekRecord() to retrieve a record by its type and ID, without making a network request. This will return the record only if it is already present in the store:

var post = this.store.peekRecord('post', 1); // => no network request

Use store.findAll() to retrieve all of the records for a given type:

var posts = this.store.findAll('post'); // => GET /posts

Use store.peekAll() to retrieve all of the records for a given type that are already loaded into the store, without making a network request:

var posts = this.store.peekAll('post'); // => no network request

store.findAll() returns a DS.PromiseArray that fulfills to a DS.RecordArray and store.peekAll directly returns a DS.RecordArray.

It's important to note that DS.RecordArray is not a JavaScript array. It is an object that implements Ember.Enumerable. This is important because, for example, if you want to retrieve records by index, the [] notation will not work--you'll have to use objectAt(index) instead.

Ember Data provides the ability to query for records that meet certain criteria. Calling store.query() will make a GET request with the passed object serialized as query params. This method returns DS.PromiseArray in the same way as find.

For example, we could search for all person models who have the name of Peter:

var peters = this.store.query('person', { name: 'Peter' }); // => GET to /persons?name=Peter

As discussed in Specifying a Route's Model, routes are responsible for telling their template which model to render.

Ember.Route's model hook supports asynchronous values out-of-the-box. If you return a promise from the model hook, the router will wait until the promise has fulfilled to render the template.

This makes it easy to write apps with asynchronous data using Ember Data. Just return the requested record from the model hook, and let Ember deal with figuring out whether a network request is needed or not.

var Router = Ember.Router.extend({});

Router.map(function() {
  this.route('posts');
  this.route('post', { path: ':post_id' });
});

export default Router;

export default Ember.Route.extend({
  model() {
    return this.store.findAll('post');
  }
});

export default Ember.Route.extend({
  model(params) {
    return this.store.findRecord('post', params.post_id);
  }
})