Model hook using link-to

controllers.application.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Controller.extend({
  appName: 'Ember Twiddle'
});

initializers.pretender.js

export function returnJSON(status, body) {
  return json(...arguments);
};

export function json(status, body) {
  if (arguments.length === 1) {
    body = status;
    status = 200;
  }
  
  return [
    status,
    { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
    JSON.stringify(body)
  ];
};

export const server = new Pretender();

export function initialize() {
  server.handledRequest = function(verb, path, request) {
    console.log(`handled request to ${verb} ${path}`);
  }

  server.unhandledRequest = function(verb, path, request) {
    console.log(`undhandled request ${verb} ${path}`);
  }
};

export default {
  name: 'pretender',
  initialize
};

models.user.js

import Model from "ember-data/model";
import attr from "ember-data/attr";
import { belongsTo, hasMany } from "ember-data/relationships";

const model = Model.extend({
  name: attr('string')
});

model.reopenClass({
    FIXTURES: [
      { id: 1, name: 'Steven'}
    ]
});

export default model

router.js

import Ember from 'ember';
import config from './config/environment';

const Router = Ember.Router.extend({
  location: 'none',
  rootURL: config.rootURL
});

Router.map(function() {
  this.route('my-route', { path: '/my-route/:person_id' })
 });

export default Router;

routes.application.js

import Ember from 'ember';
import { server, json } from '../initializers/pretender';

server.map(function() {
  this.get('/users/1', function() {
    return json({
      data: {
        type: 'user',
        id: 1,
        attributes: {
          name: 'George Michael Bluth'
        }
      }
    });
  });
});

export default Ember.Route.extend({
  model() {
    return this.store.findRecord('user', 1)
  }
});

routes.my-route.js

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Route.extend({
  model(params) {
    alert('hit the model')
    const id = params.person_id
    return this.store.peekRecord('user', id)
  }
});

templates.application.hbs

<h1>Welcome to {{appName}}</h1>
<br>
<div>
Hi {{model.name}}
</div>
<div>
{{#link-to 'my-route' model.id}}My route{{/link-to}}
</div>
<br>
{{outlet}}
<br>
<br>

templates.my-route.hbs

Welcome to my route {{model.name}}

twiddle.json

{
  "version": "0.10.1",
  "EmberENV": {
    "FEATURES": {}
  },
  "options": {
    "use_pods": false,
    "enable-testing": false
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.js",
    "ember": "2.6.0",
    "ember-data": "2.6.1",
    "ember-template-compiler": "2.6.0",
        "route-recognizer": "https://rawgit.com/tildeio/route-recognizer/56f5fcec6ae58d8e86b5dc77609809fb91198142/dist/route-recognizer.js",
    "FakeXMLHttpRequest": "https://rawgit.com/pretenderjs/FakeXMLHttpRequest/23c3a96b5b24f1bfe595867437e4f128a29c2840/fake_xml_http_request.js",
    "pretender": "https://rawgit.com/pretenderjs/pretender/c6de9afe18b1472aded2592f5a80ad9a26a0e262/pretender.js"
  },
  "addons": {}
}