Daniel Nelson nadnoslen

Creating Customized JSONAPI Compliant Responses

There are times when using jsonapi-resources that you will need to write your own controller actions because you have complicated logic or a resource with relationships to process in a single transactioned request. It's nice to know how to handle the success and failure responses in a JSONAPI compliant manner. Thankfully jsonapi-resources exposes these features to us, you just need to read some code to figure out how to use them.

A Typical Success Response

Consider a use-case where you are updating a Users model and its collection of assigned Roles. Say you author an action in your users_controller.rb named update_user_and_roles:

def update_user_and_roles

... process write your logic to process the `User` model and the `Role` models...that's outside the scope of this example

When naming indexes in migrations, make sure to use names that do not contain any spaces.

Routes dedicated to looking up a specific id'd model should use the afterModel(resolvedModel, transition) to perform any security checks concerning whether the current user is permitted to the given route. OBVIOUSLY the server-side API should prevent access, but if it doesn't this is a place to make that happen. An example of this kind of route is users.user where the app/routes/users/user.js is responsible for looking up a user with a specific id. If the requested user model comes back from the server without a 401, you can further check the model with additional client-side logic to make sure that the current user is permitted to operate on it.
Events (e.g. clicks) should be handled by an action defined in the route. Use route-action helper. Why? Promotes component re-usability by it not being responsible for reacting to the event while the route serves a specific use case and can respond accordingly to the event.
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Daniel Nelson nadnoslen

Creating Customized JSONAPI Compliant Responses

A Typical Success Response

... process write your logic to process the User model and the Role models...that's outside the scope of this example

... process write your logic to process the `User` model and the `Role` models...that's outside the scope of this example