Useful Ember Data helpers

push-deletion.js

/*
  notifying the store that a record has been remotely deleted and should be fully removed.
*/
function pushDeletion(store, type, id) {
  let record = store.peekRecord(type, id);
  
  if (record !== null) {
    let relationships = {};
    let hasRelationships = false;
    
    record.eachRelationship((name, { kind }) => {
      hasRelationships = true;
      relationships[name] = {
        data: kind === 'hasMany' ? [] : null
      };
    });

    if (hasRelationships) {
      store.push({
        data: {
          type,
          id,
          relationships
        }
      });
    }

    record.unloadRecord();
  }
}

push-payload.js

/*
  Avoids common pitfalls and the weird undocumented special-sauce format that must be used with the built in pushPayload
*/
function pushPayload(store, modelName, rawPayload) {
  let ModelClass = store.modelFor(modelName);
  let serializer = store.serializerFor(modelName);
  
  let jsonApiPayload = serializer.normalizeResponse(store, ModelClass, rawPayload, null, 'query');

  return store.push(jsonApiPayload);
}