Can I POST hasMany children as an array of POJOs on the parent?

@Abuelo wrote:

I have a form that currently saves a customer model that has a number of hasMany relationship to a number of other models.

Sometimes the ID of the customer model will be known and sometimes it won’t. In an ideal case I’d like to avoid creating a chain of thens() to save each model so thought I could send the entire object to the API as follows:

  {
    customer: {
      first_name: x,
      last_name: x,
      hasManyModel1: [{
        id: null,
        customer_id: null,       //Note: Sometimes I will be able to insert this manually. 
        content: x
      }, {
        id: null,
        customer_id: null,
        content: x
      }]
    }
  }

I can’t seem to get an array of objects to return under the ‘hasMany’ property though. I tried something like this:

    this.customer.hasManyModel1.pushObject(event)

    customer.save()

But the event object doesn’t seem to get pushed in the POST request. I tried various combinations of false and records in the models serialisers but didn’t have any luck. The only time I can get what I need is by creating a second property like newHasManyModel1 :[{},{}] which feels a bit naff.

Any feedback would be much appreciated. Let me know if I haven’t explained myself clearly enough.

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