Change the route for a Restangular object - restangular

Question

I'm using Restangular to login my currentUser like this:
this.login = function (credentials) {
var loginURL = Restangular.all('logins');
return loginURL.customPOST({ user: credentials.user, password: credentials.password })
.then(function (res) {
$scope.currentUser = res;
console.log("User successfully logged in.");
};
};
At some point the currentUser might need to update his preferences with a customPUT() . . .
this.updateUser = function(currentUser){
return currentUser.customPUT({ user: currentUser })
.then(function(response){
if (typeof response.errors === 'undefined') {
$rootScope.$broadcast(AUTH_EVENTS.updateAccount, response.data );
console.log("Account successfully updated.");
currentUser = response.data
} else {
$q.reject(response);
}
}, function(response){
$q.reject(response);
});
My problem is that my server api has a one route for logins/outs (/api/logins/) and a different route for user updates (/api/users/).
Is there a way to easily change the route on my currentUser object after login so that it uses the /api/users route?

Answer 1

I assume
that you have set the baseUrl (via Restangular.setBaseUrl) to your API
and that the route 'users' is needed most of the time.
If this is true, one solution would be to take the plain object returned by the login and re-restangularize it. This can look similar to following code:
$scope.currentUser = res.plain();
Restangular.restangularizeElement('', $scope.currentUser, 'users');
Try this in the then-part of your login POST. Afterwards $scope.currentUser should be your user object, but all set up like you've retrieved it from /users. Subsequent REST-operations will then use the new URL.