EmberJS: Allow Optional ID in Resource

Question

Using Emberjs, I would like to follow the REST specification, whereby an array of all objects is returned when no id is specified:

• http://localhost:4200/database returns all databases (would be databases)
• http://localhost:4200/database/:id returns the database info for a provided database (as expected)

My routes are defined as follows:

Router.map ->
    @resource "database", ":database_id", ->
        @route "new"
        @route "edit"

How can I allow for an optional id in my resource?

Answer 1

Im not the biggest fan of CoffeeScript so ill be replying with good old JavaScript.

So your routes look wrong, they should be as follows

App.Router.map(function() {
   this.resource("databases", function() {
       this.route("new"),
       this.resource("databases", { path: '/databases/:id' }, function() {
          this.route("edit"),
       });
   });
});

this would give you the following,

/databases (list of databases )
/databases/new  ( create a new database )
/databases/:id  ( view a database with id :id)
/databases/:id/edit  (edit the database with id of :id )

this removes the need for needing an optional ID.