Saving associated data

[bijulabalan]

I am trying to save a User Model with associated data products. Something like

Ext.define('Test.model.User', {
extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
requires:'Test.model.Product',
config: {
fields: [
{name: 'id', type: 'int'},
{name: 'name', type: 'string'}
],
hasMany: {model: 'Test.model.Product', name: 'products', associationKey: 'products'},


proxy: {
type: 'ajax',
url : 'users.json',
reader: {
type: 'json',
root: 'users'
}
}
}
});
Ext.define('Test.model.Product', {
extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
config: {
fields: [
{name: 'id', type: 'int'},
{name: 'total', type: 'float'},
{name: 'status', type: 'string'}
]
}
});


How do I post the changes to User and Product model in one call? When I call User.save, only the user related data is being sent. Do I to make a separate call to send the product data? I would like to get one json string that contains all the data that can be submitted through the ajax call.

Thanks,
Bijula

[mitchellsimoens]

2.1.0 will have the ability to save associated data, currently it's not well supported.

[bijulabalan]

Looks like a custom writer is the only solution for now. Thanks for the heads up!

[pflopez]

Now that sencha 2.1.0 is out, how can we accomplish this?

Thanks!

[eastlander]

I do it manually like:

Ext.Ajax.request({
            url: 'IncidentalOrder/SaveIncidentalOrder',
            method: 'post',
            headers: {
                'Content-Type': 'application/json;charset=utf-8'
            },
            params: JSON.stringify(record.getData(true)),
            scope: this,
            success: function (response) {
                
            }
        });

record.getData(true) gets my toplevel model with all child associations.