What this addon does now that MirageJS has been extracted about ember-cli-mirage HOT 4 OPEN

@hennii I found this blog post a while ago https://blog.lux.name/2-dive-into-ember-data-1/ that is a good introduction. I havent found a part 2 yet, hope it comes eventually.

Did a lot of reading from @runspired overview https://blog.emberjs.com/ember-data-5-x-update-2023-04-15/ (Thanks for all the hard work), and am interested in references to how serializers are handled. I do need some property renames for example and not sure where that happens in the request/cache versions.

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Autodiscovery is (period) bad. I think at most what ember-cli-mirage could do for ember-data is integrate with the schema service and build its models on-demand from the schemas that service provides. But really the mistake mirage is making here is twofold (1) in assuming a library like ember-data has models and (2) in using presentation classes (models) as schema sources (even for itself). Both of these are brittle foundations.

One of the points I was trying to convey in my comment is that the future of EmberData has no models. Neither in the container nor on disk. Autodiscovery simply will not work, because there is nothing to discover.

EmberData users will likely come up with a lot of ways of supply schema to the schema service (or be schema-less). The encouraged patterns will be around just-in-time derivation/loading. The friction here is probably because EmberData is not an ORM while Mirage attempts to be.

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@runspired I'm really curious about the idea of models going away from EmberData, do you have any more resources you can link to regarding this idea/discussion?

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@cah-brian-gantzler any data munging to align API to cache format should happen in a handler. That said, such munging always should be considered a code smell if you have the ability to align the cache to the the API or the API to the cache. There are times when neither of these is possible (3rd party API with a format that's not very useful so you want a different cache format anyway) but they are usually rather rare.

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