Backbone parsing json response

Question

I\'ve been using Backbone for a total of 3 days now, and I can see that this has been asked about quite a lot, but honestly I\'m just not getting it. I\'ve been banging my head

Answer 1

You should use the parse() method in your collection :

Contact.Collections.Employees = Backbone.Collection.extend({
    model: Contact.Models.Employee,
    url: "includes/test-data.json",

    initialize: function(){
        console.log("Employees initialize");
    },

    parse : function(response){
        return response.employees;  
   }    

});

There is one parse() in the MOdel as well as in the Collection, for the same purpose on url() handling.

EDIT : I'm not an expert in the Router, but I suppose you have to render the View at some point.

var view = new Contact.Views.Employees({ collection: Contact.employees }); 
view.render();