5. My Ember Project | Learning Yeoman

Controllers

In Ember.js, controllers allow you to decorate your models with display logic; models have properties that are sent to the server and controllers have properties that do not need to be sent to the server.

Post edit controller

The generator will create a controller that will control the edit view; let's add some logic that will handle saving and destroying a model.

Open the app/scripts/controllers/post_edit_controller.coffee file and add the following content:

LearningYeomanCh5.PostEditController = Ember.ObjectController.extend(
  needs: 'post'
  actions:
    save: ->
      @get('model').save()
      @transitionToRoute 'post', @get('model')
    destroy: ->
      @get('model').deleteRecord()
      @transitionToRoute 'posts'
)

The preceding code does the following:

The PostEditController class is defined extending the Ember.ObjectController class
The needs property specifies that this controller depends on the post controller
The actions object declares a save action and a destroy...

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Learning Yeoman

By : Jonathan Spratley

Learning Yeoman

By: Jonathan Spratley

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Learning Yeoman

By : Jonathan Spratley

Learning Yeoman

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