Backbone.aggregator

A collection that contains pointers to elements to other collections models.

Use case?

Having a polymorphic collection that just points to existant elements in your state.

For instance having a Recent activities that mixes Tasks and Activities, you want to be sure that adding, deleting or changing a Task or Activity will update Recent Activities.

How does it work?

The API is almost the same as Backbone.Collection.

• You must specify which collection the model belongs.
• Each model must have a type attribute.
• The aggregator collection must implement the collections method. This will return a mapping of type and collection.
• If you want to get a model from the aggregator collection you must specify the type too.

Models.Task = Backbone.Model.extend({initialize: function () {
  this.collection = tasks;
}});

Models.Activity = Backbone.Model.extend({initialize: function () {
  this.collection = activities;
}});

Collections.Tasks = Backbone.Collection.extend({model: Models.Task});
Collections.Activities = Backbone.Collection.extend({model: Models.Activity});

Collections.Threads = Backbone.Aggregator.extend({
  model: function (attr, opt) {
    return new Models[attr.type](attr, opt);
  }
, collections: function () {
    return {Task: tasks, Activity: activities};
  }
});

tasks = new Collections.Tasks();
activities = new Collections.Activities();
threads = new Collections.Threads();

Tests

You must have node installed in order to run the tests.

npm install
make

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Pau Ramon [email protected]

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