backbone.js collection get vars

Question

This seems like an obvious one, but I\'m somehow missing it...

How do you send options along with a backbone.js collection fetch()?

Or, from a broader point of

Answer 1

I've been messing with Backbone for a couple days now and I had to deal with this problem almost immediately and I looked at this solution, but I found it clunky. After reading some more backbone documentation I discovered you can actually override any of the jQuery.ajax options within the fetch() method. So for example

Posts = Backbone.Collections.extend({
  model: Post,
  url: '/posts'
});

Now when you want to call fetch just send it whatever parameters you wish. e.g.

var posts = new Posts();
posts.fetch({ data: { page: 3, pagesize: 10, sort: 'asc' } });

This will produce the following request:

http://yourdomain/posts?page=3&pagesize=10&sort=asc

Anyway, I know you've already accepted an answer, but hopefully this will help someone.