Backbone.js - Getting JSON back from url
- by Brian
While trying to learn Backbone.js, I've been trying to grab the content of a JSON file using the following code:
(function($){
var MyModel = Backbone.Model.extend();
var MyCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
model : MyModel,
url: '/backbone/data.json',
parse: function(response) {
console.log(response);
return response;
}
});
var stuff = new MyCollection;
console.log(stuff.fetch());
console.log(stuff.toJSON());
})(jQuery)
'stuff.fetch()' returns the entire object (with the data I'm after in responseText), 'stuff.toJSON' returns nothing ([]), but the console in the parse method is returning exactly what I want (the json object of my data).
I feel like I'm missing something obvious here, but I just can't seem to figure it out why I can't get the right data out. Could someone point me in the right direction or show me what I'm doing wrong here? Am I using a model for the wrong thing?
