Dependent Relationships in Ember Data

ember-data.dependent-relations.js

/**
  Ember Data: Dependent Relationships

  This package extends Ember Data to support creating relationships
  where a model's dirty state depends not only on its own attributes
  but on the dirty state of models in dependent relationships as well.

  ```javascript
  App.Thing = DS.Model.extend({
    name     : DS.attr('string'),
    children : DS.hasMany('thing', { dependent: true })
  });

  // Load all the things

  var thing = store.findById('thing', '1');
  var child = thing.get('children.firstObject');

  thing.get('isDirty'); // false
  child.get('name'); // 'foo'

  child.set('name', 'bar');
  thing.get('isDirty'); // true

  thing.rollback();
  child.get('name'); // 'foo'
  ```

  Note that saving dependent relations automatically, and handling
  'isValid' state based on dependent relations is not supported.
*/
/* global Ember, DS */
(function() {
  var get = Ember.get;
  var set = Ember.set;

  function isDescriptor(value) {
    // Ember < 1.11
    if (Ember.Descriptor !== undefined) {
      return value instanceof Ember.Descriptor;
    }
    // Ember >= 1.11
    return value && typeof value === 'object' && value.isDescriptor;
  }

  //
  // State machine handlers
  //

  // Object/array agnostic 'isDirty' check
  function isRelatedRecordDirty(value) {
    return Ember.isArray(value) ? Ember.A(value).isAny('isDirty') : get(value, 'isDirty');
  }

  // Original-state aware dirty check
  function isRelationshipDirty(record, key) {
    var value = get(record, key).toArray();
    var originalValue = record._dependentRelationships[key];

    return Ember.compare(value, originalValue) !== 0;
  }

  // The new de facto check to determine if a record is dirty
  function isRecordDirty(record) {
    // First check normal attributes
    if (Ember.keys(record._attributes).length) {
      return true;
    }

    // Then check dependent relations
    return Ember.A(Ember.keys(record._dependentRelationships)).any(function(key) {
      return isRelationshipDirty(record, key) || isRelatedRecordDirty(get(record, key));
    });
  }

  // A dependent relationship can change if:
  //   * a belongsTo gets changed to another record
  //   * a belongsTo record dirties/cleans
  //   * a hasMany array gets added to or removed from
  //   * a hasMany array has a record that dirties/cleans
  var dependentRelationshipDidChange = function(record, context) {
    if (Ember.compare(context.value, context.originalValue) !== 0 || isRelatedRecordDirty(context.value)) {
      record.send('becomeDirty');
    } else {
      record.send('propertyWasReset', context.name);
    }
  };

  // The check for whether the record is still dirty now has to account for dependent relations
  var propertyWasReset = function(record) {
    if (!isRecordDirty(record)) {
      record.send('rolledBack');
    }
  };

  // Check to see if the saved record is dirty
  var savedSetup = function(record) {
    if (isRecordDirty(record)) {
      record.adapterDidDirty();
    }
  };

  //
  // Perform some state machine surgery
  // TODO: figure out how to make this less ass
  //

  // Handle dependent relationship change
  DS.RootState.loaded.dependentRelationshipDidChange = dependentRelationshipDidChange;

  // Changes to dependent relations while in-flight, invalid, or deleted should not alter its state
  DS.RootState.loaded.created.inFlight.dependentRelationshipDidChange = Ember.K;
  DS.RootState.loaded.updated.inFlight.dependentRelationshipDidChange = Ember.K;
  DS.RootState.loaded.created.invalid.dependentRelationshipDidChange = Ember.K;
  DS.RootState.loaded.updated.invalid.dependentRelationshipDidChange = Ember.K;
  DS.RootState.deleted.dependentRelationshipDidChange = Ember.K;

  // Override the property reset handler to account for dependent relations
  DS.RootState.loaded.created.uncommitted.propertyWasReset = propertyWasReset;
  DS.RootState.loaded.updated.uncommitted.propertyWasReset = propertyWasReset;

  // Handle the case when a record that is in the 'root.deleted.uncommitted' state
  // is rolled back but has dirty dependent relations
  DS.RootState.loaded.saved.setup = savedSetup;

  //
  // Modify DS.Model
  //

  // Add dependent property helpers
  DS.Model.reopenClass({
    // Loop over each dependent relation, passing the property name and the relationship meta
    eachDependentRelationship: function(callback, binding) {
      get(this, 'relationshipsByName').forEach(function(relationship, name) {
        if (relationship.options.dependent) {
          callback.call(binding, name, relationship);
        }
      });
    }
  });

  DS.Model.reopen(Ember.Comparable, {
    // Initialize dependent relationship snapshot object
    _setup: function() {
      this._super();
      this._dependentRelationships = {};
    },

    // Loop over each dependent property
    eachDependentRelationship: function(callback, binding) {
      this.constructor.eachDependentRelationship(callback, binding || this);
    },

    // Hook into the object creation lifecycle in order to add dirty observers
    didDefineProperty: function(proto, key, value) {
      this._super(proto, key, value);

      if (isDescriptor(value)) {
        var meta = value.meta();

        if (meta.isRelationship && meta.options.dependent) {
          if (meta.kind === 'belongsTo') {
            Ember.addObserver(proto, key + '.isDirty', null, 'dependentRelationshipDidChange');
          } else if (meta.kind === 'hasMany') {
            Ember.addObserver(proto, key + '[email protected]', null, 'dependentRelationshipDidChange');
          }
        }
      }
    },

    // Returns object describing of changed relationships, like `changedAttributes`
    changedRelationships: function() {
      var record = this;
      var dependentRelations = record._dependentRelationships;
      var relationship;
      var changed = {};

      record.eachDependentRelationship(function(name, relationshipMeta) {
        if (record._relationships[name] && isRelationshipDirty(record, name)) {
          relationship = get(record, name);

          changed[name] = [
            Ember.copy(dependentRelations[name]),
            relationshipMeta.kind === 'belongsTo' ? relationship : relationship.toArray(),
          ];
        }
      });

      return changed;
    },

    // Observer for relationship change, should send state machine message 'dependentRelationshipDidChange'
    dependentRelationshipDidChange: Ember.immediateObserver(function(record, key) {
      var dependentRelations = record._dependentRelationships;
      var name = key.split('.')[0];

      if (name in dependentRelations) {
        var value = get(record, name);

        // Make DS.ManyArray into a vanilla array for comparison with original
        if (Ember.isArray(value)) {
          value = value.toArray();
        }

        record.send('dependentRelationshipDidChange', {
          name          : name,
          value         : value,
          originalValue : dependentRelations[name],
        });
      }
    }),

    // Update the dependent relations when the adapter loads new data
    adapterDidCommit: function() {
      this.snapshotDependentRelations();
      this._super.apply(this, arguments);

      // Relationship updates don't trigger data changes anymore, so manually
      // notify all relationship properties of possible change
      this.eachDependentRelationship(function(name, relationship) {
        if (relationship.kind === 'hasMany') {
          this.dependentRelationshipDidChange(this, name);
        }
      });
    },

    // When the record is loaded/saved, save its relations so they can be reverted
    snapshotDependentRelations: function() {
      var record = this;
      var dependentRelations = record._dependentRelationships;
      var relationship;

      record.eachDependentRelationship(function(name, relationshipMeta) {
        if (record._relationships[name]) {
          relationship = get(record, name);

          dependentRelations[name] = relationshipMeta.kind === 'belongsTo' ? relationship : relationship.toArray();
        }
      });
    }.on('didLoad'),

    // Dependent relations rely on the 'isDirty' CP, which may not get called
    precomputeIsDirty: function() {
      get(this, 'isDirty');
    }.on('init'),

    // Rollback relations as well as attributes
    rollback: function() {
      // Revert attributes like normal
      this._super();

      var record = this;
      var dependentRelations = this._dependentRelationships;

      record.eachDependentRelationship(function(name, relationshipMeta) {
        if (name in dependentRelations) {
          var originalRelationship = dependentRelations[name];

          if (relationshipMeta.kind === 'belongsTo') {
            set(record, name, originalRelationship);
          } else {
            get(record, name).setObjects(originalRelationship);
          }

          // Rollback child/field records that have changed as well
          Ember.makeArray(originalRelationship).filterBy('isDirty').invoke('rollback');
        }
      });
    },

    // Basic identity comparison to allow `Ember.compare` to work on models
    compare: function(r1, r2) {
      return r1 === r2 ? 0 : 1;
    },
  });
}());

Thanks @kellyselden, updated.

This isn't working in ember-data 1.0.0-beta.19.1. It breaks on https://gist.github.com/slindberg/8660986#file-ember-data-dependent-relations-js-L71 where record._dependentRelationships is undefined. record was previously a DS.Model instance, but now it is a DS.InternalModel, which is a pojo that cannot be reopened.

Applied a fix for the toArray() error on belongsTo associations here: https://gist.github.com/pilaf/795409f42468546728a0

@kellyselden is right. Anyone has a fix?

@Leooo @kellyselden I need a fix for this as well. Did you guys make any progress?

Here is an attempt at internal model compatibility for dependent relations that is based on lytics/ember-data.model-fragments's compatibility work.

Ember 1.13.7
Data 1.13.14

got error here
if (value && typeof value === 'object' && value.isDescriptor) {
var meta = value.meta(); <-- meta is not a function

I'm not a familiar with ember data, so my solution is quite simple
if (value && typeof value === 'object' && value.isDescriptor && typeof value.meta === 'function')