Let's say I have two views (paginationview and postsview) and a collection (postscollection). Whenever the .next button is clicked in the paginationview I am calling the next function in the postscollection and the post collection is fetching the new page's posts from the server (code is simplified). Now in my post view, I only want to display the posts that are in the last page. I don't want to bind my view to the 'add' event in the collection because there are more cases that something is 'added' to the collection. I want my 'renderlist' function in my postsview only to be called when the 'nextPage' function is called in my postscollection. How do I connect these to functions together?
// paginationview
var PaginationView = Backbone.View.extend({
events:{
'click a.next' : 'next',
},
next: function() {
this.collection.nextPage();
return false;
}
});
// collection
var PostsCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
model: model,
initialize: function() {
_.bindAll(this, 'parse', 'url', 'pageInfo', 'nextPage', 'previousPage');
this.page = 1;
this.fetch();
},
parse: function(response) {
console.log(response);
this.page = response.page;
this.perPage = response.perPage;
this.total = response.total;
this.noofpages =response.noofpages;
return response.posts;
},
url: function() {
return '/tweet/' + '?' + $.param({page: this.page});
},
nextPage: function() {
console.log("next page is called");
this.page = this.page + 1;
this.fetch();
},
// postsview
var PostsView = Backbone.View.extend({
events:{
'click #testbutton' : 'test',
'click #allbutton' : 'render',
},
initialize: function() {
this.listenTo(this.collection, 'add', this.addOne);
},
render: function() {
$(".maincontainer").html("");
this.collection.forEach(this.addOne, this);
return this;
},
renderlist: function(){
$(".maincontainer").html("");
this.collection.forEach(this.addOne, this);
},
addOne: function(post) {
var post = new postView({model : post});
post.render();
this.$el.prepend(post.el);
},
});
You can use your own event for this purpose.
In Collection.nextPage you fire the event:
this.trigger('nextpage');
and in view in initiazlie method you bind your function to this event:
this.listenTo(this.collection, 'nextpage', this.renderlist);
And also don't forget to bind context of renderlist to this (again in initialize method of view):
_.bindAll(this, 'render', 'rederlist');