I'm trying to get the view to self render by binding a change event to the views model. I've created a custom function on PageView which takes a model from the Pages collection as a paramater and uses this.model.set(data) to trigger the model change event. This is triggered when I pass it a Page model from the Pages collection in the AppView via this.page.load(Pages.at(index)). I'm running into a few problems though.
- The change event is only fired once when switching back and forth between 2 different models, which I can resolve by running this.model.clear({silent:true}), but that's not ideal.
- this.model is always undefined in any function other than the load() function within PageView which is really the main issue because I obviously can't fire this.render if the model is undefined. Hence the test:function().
Anyway here's the code for my AppView and PageView functions. Thanks in advance for any help.
define([
// These are path alias that we configured in our bootstrap
'jquery',
'underscore',
'backbone',
'handlebars',
'views/pageView',
'views/menuView',
'collections/pages'
], function($, _, Backbone, Handlebars,PageView,MenuView,Pages){
var AppView = Backbone.View.extend({
//Stores a reference to our main menu
mainMenu:{},
//Stores reference to current page
page:{},
//The parent div
el:'#app',
//Events that are being listened to on #app
events:{"click" : "active"},
//Process to run when this view is initialized
initialize:function(){
//Load our Pages Collection
Pages.reset(this.model.pages);
//Load the main menu
this.mainMenu = new MenuView;
this.mainMenu.model = this.model.main_menu;
this.mainMenu.render();
//Loads the page view
this.page = new PageView({model:Pages.at(0)});
},
//Currently just renders a page view with a designated model from the Pages collection
render:function(index){
this.page.load(Pages.at(index));
},
active:function(event){
$('.menu a').removeClass('active');
$('.menu a[href="' + event.target.hash + '"]').addClass('active');
}
});
return AppView;
// What we return here will be used by other modules
});
define([
// These are path alias that we configured in our bootstrap
'jquery',
'underscore',
'backbone',
'handlebars',
'text!templates/page.html',
], function($, _, Backbone, Handlebars, pageViewTemplate){
var PageView = Backbone.View.extend({
//Define the default template
template: Handlebars.compile(pageViewTemplate),
//The parent div for this element
el:'#content',
initialize:function(){
this.model.bind('change',this.test);
},
load:function(data){
this.model.set(data);
},
//Render function
render:function(){
this.$el.html(this.template(this.model.toJSON()));
return this;
},
test:function(){
console.log(this.model);
console.log('change');
}
});
return PageView;
// What we return here will be used by other modules
});
