Placeholder: auto-parameterizing link-to / transitionTo

[machty]

See this twitter discussion for more details, but TL;DR the ability to directly pass a model to link-to / transitionTo may be foot-gunny anti-pattern that could possibly be addressed by an API whereby all models passed to link-to / transitionTo() are parameterized (e.g. converted to numeric/string IDs) so that the model hook is still invoked.

The problem with today's behavior is that it makes it really easy to forget to implement a model hook for when the page is reloaded from URL, because the model hook is skipped when models are directly passed. It is also very confusing to teach/explain the sequence of hooks that are called given this subtle divergence in behavior, and if, in the future, all models were parameterized, we could theoretically condense all beforeModel/model/afterModel hooks into One True Hook™.

So this is a placeholder issue to remind me / anyone that hopefully this idea will turn into a full blown RFC.

[buschtoens]

Would the model hook (or methods called inside it, e.g. store.findRecord) be responsible for determining whether and how to reload a parameterized model? I could imagine that many users would dislike it, if their apps all of a sudden start reloading data for route transitions that didn't do so before.

[ryanto]

I opened a PR for this here: #283

It's just a brain dump, but let me know if you want me to add more examples.

[wagenet]

Closing since there's a related RFC.