Ember Data Adapter for Parse

An Ember Data plugin built to use the Parse REST API. This is a full Ember implementation against the Parse REST API without the use of the Parse JavaScript SDK.

The example.html file contains some example usage.

Features

EmberParseAdapter.Serializer

• Provides the translation of objectId to id for identity mapping.
• Provides encoding of hasMany associations to arrays of Parse Pointer objects.

EmberParseAdapter.Adapter

• Implements the persistence layer to Parse by extending the Ember Data REST Adapter.
• Provides a sessionToken property which can set a session token.

EmberParseAdapter.ParseUser

• Login
• Signup
• Request password reset
• Is stored at the special user endpoint at parse

EmberParseAdapter.Transforms

• Provides transforms for file, geo, and date types at Parse.

Get Started

You'll want to get an account at Parse. After this you will be provided with three keys:

• Application ID
• JavaScript Key
• REST API Key

You will need each of these to configure the ParseAdapter.

var App = Ember.Application.create();

App.ApplicationAdapter = EmberParseAdapter.Adapter.extend({
  applicationId: '<YOUR APP ID HERE>',
  restApiId: '<YOUR REST API KEY HERE>',
  javascriptId: '<YOUR JAVASCRIPT KEY HERE>'
});

Any model using this adapter will be stored on Parse. Create models as you would normally:

App.Post = DS.Model.extend({
  // Attributes can use normal transforms
  title: DS.attr('string'),
  body: DS.attr('string'),
  // Or there are special transforms for some data-types
  avatar: DS.attr('parse-file'),
  // There is a parse-date transform, but sometimes dates are just strings
  updatedAt: DS.attr('date'),
  // ALWAYS refer to relationships as async, for now.
  user: DS.belongsTo('user', {async: true})
});

Roadmap

• Move to ES6 modules.
• Bring back relationships via Parse relation type?
• Bytes type?
• Parse Roles implementation.
• Parse ACL implementation.

Dev Notes

To get started with the codebase, be sure to run the standard dependency installs:

npm install
bower install

Now you have several grunt tasks available:

grunt # -> builds the files into dist/
grunt test # -> Runs the tests in the console
grunt connect:server:keepalive # -> Runs the test server, visit http://localhost:8000/test/