A Django model serializer for Django REST Framework that will serialize lists in the format that Ember.js expects in its JSONs. This is not the best way to go about this, but is a very fast way to get your stuff working. The biggest caveat is that if you use one of these serializers nested inside another with many=True, the resulting format will…

ember_model_serializer.py

class EmberModelSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    """
    A serializer that formats list data in a way that will be readable by Ember.js.
    """

    @classmethod
    def get_class_ember_name(cls):
        type_name = cls.__name__.replace('Serializer','')
        return type_name.lower()

    @property
    def data(self):
        class_name = self.get_class_ember_name()
        serialized_data = super(EmberModelSerializer, self).data

        if self.many:
            return {"%ss" % class_name: serialized_data}
        else:
            return serialized_data