query-param-ideas.js

FooController = Em.Controller.extend({
  queryParamBindings: ['bar'], // maps to foo[bar]
  bar: 'baz',
  widgets: Ember.computed.sort('content', 'bar')
});

FooController = Em.Controller.extend({
  queryParamBindings: ['bar:lalal'], // maps to lalal
  bar: 'baz',
  
  // it should be very rare to have to configure this,
  // but we need some hook to enable pushState changes
  historyType: function(paramName, value) {
    if (paramName) {
      return HISTORY.REPLACE_STATE;
    }
  }
})

FooRoute = Em.Route.extend({
  model: function(params) {
    // all params 
    return getAThing(params);
  },
  actions: {
    // There is a default implementation of queryParamsDidChange,
    // see below.
    queryParamsDidChange: function(changedParams){
      this.refresh();
    }
  }
});

FooRoute = Em.Route.extend({
  refreshOnQueryParamChanges: ['bar', /^foo/]
  model: function(params) {
    return FooDataAccess.retrieveFoos(paramsToFooSelectionData);
  },
});

Em.Route#refresh // schedules re-run of the model hooks of this route
                 // which the run loop coalesces to refresh routes in an intelligent order (root-iest on down to leaf-iest)