EmberJS API questions using PHP - php

Question

I'm using Laravel/PHP to output some JSON for Ember to pick up.... a couple of things here.
First, my PHP looks like this (is there another way to send the data)
return Response::json([
'articles' => $articles->toArray()
], $statusCode);
This is what I am used to doing.
foreach($articles as $article) {
$response['articles'][] = [
'id' => $article->id,
'body' => $article->body,
'title' => $article->title
];
}
return Response::json([
'articles' => $articles->toArray()
], $statusCode);
The first PHP snippet works fine, but the second does not. I get all kinds of errors about resource types by Ember.
Next question is for Ember heads. Right now I am getting everything working with RESTAdapter but should I be using JSONAPIAdapter instead? When I try to get it working with JSONAPIAdapter and JSONAPISerializer I get this error
One or more of the following keys must be present: \"data\",
\"errors\", \"meta
. I can get that error to go away but then I get an error about an undefined type or an unknown resource.

Answer 1

Its not mandatory to use JSONAPIAdapter, but if you have control over the API then you can very well using it. API response should follow the format (http://jsonapi.org/format/)
Sample format for single resource object,
{
"data": {
"type": "articles",
"id": "1",
"attributes": {
// ... this article's attributes
}
}
}
Sample format for multiple resource objects,
{
"data": [{
"type": "articles",
"id": "1",
"attributes": {
"title": "JSON API paints my bikeshed!"
}
}, {
"type": "articles",
"id": "2",
"attributes": {
"title": "Rails is Omakase"
}
}]
}