Specialized Behavior

Redux-ORM provides some very useful tools for dealing with normalized data, but it only has so much functionality built-in. Fortunately, it also serves as a great starting point for building additional functionality.

Serializing and Deserializing Data

As mentioned earlier, the Normalizr library is the de-facto standard for normalizing data received from the server. I’ve found that Redux-ORM can be used to mostly build a replacement for Normalizr. I added static parse() methods to each of my classes, which know how to handle the incoming data based on the relations:

class Lance extends Model {
    static parse(lanceData) {
        // Because it's a static method, "this" refers to the class itself.
        // In this case, we're running inside a subclass bound to the Session.
        const {Pilot, Battlemech, Officer} = this.session;
        
        // Assume our incoming data looks like:
        //

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