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exivity / react-orbitjs

💫 React bindings for Orbit.js. Inspired by react-redux.
https://exivity.github.io/react-orbitjs/
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Feature Request: relationships getters and setters #27

Closed YuriScarbaci closed 5 years ago

YuriScarbaci commented 5 years ago

in relation with the OrbitJS official documentation at https://github.com/orbitjs/ember-orbit#updating-records I'm trying to access the attributes of a related record of a model retrieved with react-orbitjs but it looks like react-orbitjs doesn't expose the getter/setters functions the way ember-orbit does, as I get the error .get is not a function

is there any way to lazy load a relationship or otherwise access a given relationship attributes? the relationship identificator --> querying for the given id isn't applicable for my usecase...

hongaar commented 5 years ago

I don't know much about ember-orbit, can you tell me more about your intended use case?

YuriScarbaci commented 5 years ago

I don't know much about ember-orbit, can you tell me more about your intended use case?

Sure:

I got a component that uses withData and among other things it retrieves multiple instances of the model (let's say) user, the user model defines a hasOne relationship with the model (let's say) BestFriend

I generate a table of user where I want to print every retrieved User and in the same table i want to print 2 columns of the single User BestFriend.attributes.name & BestFriend.attributes.surname

Logging every single user istance results in the relationship BestFriend to be present and working (meaning that it contains type & id) but I noticed the lack of helpers methods to acces the related data attributes.

What i would like to be able to do is invoking a getter function on the User instance where i define the relationship defined in my schema to populate the relationships fields.

Something like currentUserInstance.get('BestFriend').attributes.name.

The only way to achieve this right now (atleast in the indexedDb source) is to manually invoke queryStore(q=>q.findRecord({type:'type from the relationship descriptor',id:'id from relationship descriptor'})) manually on every single user instance, would be extra nice if the get method could syntactical sugar coat the process...

hongaar commented 5 years ago

Got it.

It's however not really the goal for this project to provide a model/orm layer on top of Orbit, merely a reactive subscription/listener pattern to bind React and Orbit together.

Maybe https://github.com/exivity/orbit-client might be a better place for such functionality. /cc @Michiel87