backbone-nested
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A plugin to make Backbone.js keep track of nested attributes. Download minified version.
Suppose you have a Backbone Model with nested attributes, perhaps to remain consistent with your document-oriented database. Updating the nested attribute won't cause the model's "change" event to fire, which is confusing.
var user = new Backbone.Model({
name: {
first: 'Aidan',
last: 'Feldman'
}
});
user.bind('change', function(){
// this is never reached!
});
user.get('name').first = 'Bob';
user.save();
Wouldn't it be awesome if you could do this?
user.bind('change:name.first', function(){ ... });
Download the latest version here, and add backbone-nested.js to your HTML <head>, after backbone.js is included (tested against jQuery v1.7.2, Underscore v1.3.3 and Backbone v0.9.2).
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="underscore.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="backbone.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="backbone-nested.js"></script>
Change your models to extend from Backbone.NestedModel, e.g.
var Person = Backbone.Model.extend({ ... });
// becomes
var Person = Backbone.NestedModel.extend({ ... });
Change your getters and setters to not access nested attributes directly, e.g.
user.get('name').first = 'Bob';
// becomes
user.set({'name.first': 'Bob'});
Best of all, Backbone.NestedModel is designed to be a backwards-compatible, drop-in replacement of Backbone.Model, so the switch can be made painlessly.
get() and set() will work as before, but nested attributes should be accessed using the Backbone-Nested string syntax:
// dot syntax
user.set({
'name.first': 'Bob',
'name.middle.initial': 'H'
});
user.get('name.first') // returns 'Bob'
user.get('name.middle.initial') // returns 'H'
// object syntax
user.set({
'name': {
first: 'Barack',
last: 'Obama'
}
});
// object syntax
user.set({
'addresses': [
{city: 'Brooklyn', state: 'NY'},
{city: 'Oak Park', state: 'IL'}
]
});
user.get('addresses[0].state') // returns 'NY'
// square bracket syntax
user.set({
'addresses[1].state': 'MI'
});
"change" events can be bound to nested attributes in the same way, and changing nested attributes will fire up the chain:
// all of these will fire when 'name.middle.initial' is set or changed
user.bind('change', function(model, newVal){ ... });
user.bind('change:name', function(model, newName){ ... });
user.bind('change:name.middle', function(model, newMiddleName){ ... });
user.bind('change:name.middle.initial', function(model, newInitial){ ... });
// all of these will fire when the first address is added or changed
user.bind('change', function(model, newVal){ ... });
user.bind('change:addresses', function(model, addrs){ ... });
user.bind('change:addresses[0]', function(model, newAddr){ ... });
user.bind('change:addresses[0].city', function(model, newCity){ ... });
Additionally, nested arrays fire "add" and "remove" events:
user.bind('add:addresses', function(model, newAddr){ ... });
user.bind('remove:addresses', function(model, oldAddr){ ... });
Acts like set(), but appends the item to the nested array. For example:
user.get('addresses').length; //=> 2
user.add('addresses', {
city: 'Seattle',
state: 'WA'
});
user.get('addresses').length; //=> 3
Acts like unset(), but if the unset item is an element in a nested array, the array will be compacted. For example:
user.get('addresses').length; //=> 2
user.remove('addresses[0]');
user.get('addresses').length; //=> 1
remove() not firing 'remove' event when last element of array is removed (thanks @Kmandr)clear() and set nested attributes on changedAttributes() (thanks @isakb)'change' events will no longer fire if new value matches the oldchangedAttributes() should include the nested attribute pathsremove() to not insert array back into itselftoJSON() (p3drosola)get() warnings for non-leaf attributesInitial release!
Pull requests are more than welcome - please add tests, which can be run by opening test/index.html. They can also be run from the command-line (requires PhantomJS):
$ npm install
$ grunt
FAQs
A plugin to make Backbone.js keep track of nested attributes.
We found that backbone-nested demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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