For Backbone questions specific to Backbone's collections.
Backbone collections are order sets of models. Collections forward events on their models to the collection's listeners for convenience.
Questions tagged [backbone.js-collections]
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What is the AngularJS equivalent to Backbone's Collections?
Is there an equivalent to Backbone's Collection or Ext JS's Store in Angular JS? I'm learning about $resource, but not quite getting this aspect.
Controller
// This is the "collection" I'm interested in.
$scope.foos = [];
// Foo is a…
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Backbone.js fetch method with data option is passing URL params with square brackets
I have the following code to fetch the data for my collection but with specifying what colors should come from the server:
fruits = new FruitsCollection();
fruits.fetch({
data: {color: ['red', 'green']}
});
This is what I…
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detect when a backbone collection has been fetched (Backbone 1.0.0)
There's a new behaviour in the latest version of Backbone (1.0.0 in which the reset event is no longer triggered by default after fetching a Collection.
http://backbonejs.org/#changelog
Renamed Collection's "update" to set, for parallelism with the…
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Retrieving index position of item added to Backbone.js Collection
If I add an item to a Collection how can I find the position at which it was added? The Underscore.js documentation for add suggests the only way to achieve this is by binding to the add event.
Is there any other way?
If not, then how can I reteive…
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Backbone: How to update a collection view when collection changes?
I'm relatively new to Backbone.js. I'm initializing a collection view and passing in a collection at creation time.
suggestionsView = new TreeCategoriesAutoSuggest.Views.Suggestions({
collection: new…
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BackboneJS model.url using collection.url
From my understanding the default behavior of Backbone JS Models are to return the Collection's URL, unless the model has a urlRoot specified. I can't seem to get the behavior to work.
From the documentation:
model.url() ... Generates URLs of the…
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Backbone Collection of polymorphic Models
I have a collection of Animals.
App.Collections.Animals extends Backbone.Collection
model: App.Animal
url: '/animals/' #returns json
And these animal classes:
App.Models.Animal extends Backbone.Model
App.Models.Monkey extends…
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Backbone collection where clause with OR condition
I have searched for this for quite some time but could not get a way to have a where clause with or condition. For example if I have a collection Cars and I try to do the following:
Cars.where({
model: 1998,
color: 'Black',
…
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Is it possible to initialise a backbone Collection with object IDs rather than objects?
I have a Backbone.js Collection and I have an array of model IDs that I want to populate it. I know that I could fetch these objects one by one, build an array of objects and pass them into the Collection's constructor as an array.
What I'd like to…
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How do I bootstrap a collection in Backbone.js using Javascript only
Context: I am building an application that needs several large collections of reference data to operation. I am limited to HTML and Javascript only (including JSON).
Question: How do I bootstrap a collection in Backbone.js where the collection…
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What is the best approach to replace Parse.Collections in JavaScript
Parse.com has removed the Backbone style Parse.Collection from the JS SKD (from here https://parse.com/docs/downloads):
SDK no longer contains Backbone-specific behavior. Moving forward, the core SDK will not be tied to any single framework, but we…
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Best Practice for moving backbone model within a collection
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How can I move a model within a collection?
I have a Backbone collection, visually represented in a list. This…
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Mapping JSON to backbone.js collections
Alright, it looks like I need a hint to point me in the right direction. This question is two part - working with mult-dimensional JSON and Collections of Collections from JSON.
Background
I have some JSON that is going to be retrieved from a server…
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Backbone.js - fetch method does not fire reset event
I'm beginning with Backbone.js and trying to build my first sample app - shopping list.
My problem is when I fetch collection of items, reset event isn't probably fired, so my render method isn't called.
Model:
Item = Backbone.Model.extend({
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Why doesn't Backbone Collection fetch return a promise
The following example code works well:
Auth_controller.prototype.isLogged = function(){
//Check if the user is authenticated
var getAuthStatus = this.auth_model.fetch();
return getAuthStatus;
};
Auth_controller.prototype.redirect…
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