How to manually set an object state to clean (saved) using ember-data
Looking at ember-data the uncommitted state has a 'becameClean' event which consequently sets the record as loaded.saved.
This should do the trick
record.get('stateManager').send('becameClean');
Solution for Ember Data 1.0.0-beta.7:
// changing to loaded.updated.inFlight, which has "didCommit"
record.send('willCommit');
// clear array of changed (dirty) model attributes
record.set('_attributes', {});
// changing to loaded.saved (hooks didCommit event in "inFlight" state)
record.send('didCommit');
I've searched the source code of Ember-data and I've found that loaded.saved state has a setup function that checks whether a model is clean, before setting "saved" state. If it is not clean, then it rejects a request to change state and returns to loaded.updated.uncommitted.
So you have to clean model._attributes array, which keeps attributes names and Ember will let you change state manually.
I know it isn't very good solution, because is needed to set private property of a model, but I've not found any other solutions yet.