where is the best place to adjust how ember-data talks to sails - ember-data

Question

I am trying to implement an ember-cli (ember-data) to sails.js connection. I have installed ember-data-sails and have a simple model and am using the socketAdapter...
adapters/application.js
import SailsSocketAdapter from 'ember-data-sails/adapters/sails-socket';
export default SailsSocketAdapter.extend({
useCSRF: true,
coalesceFindRequests: true,
namespace: 'api/v1',
//defaultSerializer: '-rest',
});
Example Model:
RequestType.js
module.exports = {
attributes: {
name : { type: 'string' },
desc : { type: 'string' },
requestSubType : { type: 'hasMany' }
}
};
So far it is mostly working, I can get a list of RequestTypes ok. However if i try and nest a route to display/create the hasMany relationship, then i have an issue.
request-sub-types/new/routes.js
This file, requests the Parent model requestType first, and then creates a new record, inserting the Parent in the belongsTo attribute.
import Ember from 'ember';
export default Ember.Route.extend({
model: function() {
var requestType = this.modelFor('requestTypes/view');
return requestType.get('requestSubTypes').createRecord({
requestType: requestType
});
}
});
request-types/view/route.js
This file is the model I think that is being requested above. The issue here is the params object that get fed through is:
{ requestType_id: 6 }
but if this is passed to the store.query call then nothing gets returned. If however I change the params object to:
{ id: 6 }
then I do see a record come back from the sails api.
import Ember from 'ember';
export default Ember.Route.extend({
model: function(params) {
console.log('RT: View Route MODEL', params);
var query = {};
if(params.requestType_id) {
query.id= params.requestType_id;
}
return this.store.query('requestType', query);
}
});
So My question is what do i need to edit to make the Primary Key definitions match up. so that Ember-data and Sails can talk to each other correctly? Is it in a serializer somewhere, the Sails API or in each model call?
thanks... and sorry if the above doesn't make any sense! :)