Using factory attrs in route handlers

When I am creating a new record, from a POST request, the record created does not contain all properties of the factory that is defined. For example.

I have a page for new user, the post request sends only the user password and username. However, the factory has a few additional properties:

• username
• password
• createdAt
• updatedAt

As I said, the request.requestBody only contains “username” and “password” and when I create a new record, the createdAt and updatedAt properties are not created

var body = { username: 'sam', password: '1234' }
var newUser = db.users.insert(body)
console.log(newUser) // { id: 123, username: 'sam', password: '1234' }

[john-griffin]

A constructor like function on the model would be super useful for setting default values such as created at. The model feels like a better place for this rather than injecting default values in at the route level, especially for apps using mirage shorthands and plain JSON API.

[pzuraq]

@samselikoff We would actually like to be able to have this type of functionality for POST-ing. Some our systems only take a single field and then populate the rest of the data from other sources on the server side. It would be convenient to use Factories and faker.js to be able to achieve a similar effect in our mocks/tests.