how to use Backbone.js, but in the NO-RESTful way?

Question

I\'m now a front-end developer, and I have a project which is fine to use BackboneJS, and the server-side is written by others. Is there anyone who can tell me how to override

Answer 1

Backbone uses Backbone.sync to manage all communication with the server. There are two important things about sync for you; first of all, it looks like this:

The method signature of Backbone.sync is sync(method, model, [options])

• method – the CRUD method ("create", "read", "update", or "delete")
• model – the model to be saved (or collection to be read)
• options – success and error callbacks, and all other jQuery request options

and the second is that you can override sync on a per-model and per-collection basis. So you can add your own sync implementation to your model:

var M = Backbone.Model.extend({
    sync: function(method, model, options) {
        //...
    },
    //...
});

If you look at method you can decide which URL to use and whether you're doing a GET, POST, ... request. The model will tell you what data to send to the server. You'll want to merge options into the $.ajax options you want to use. Have a look at the standard implementation of Backbone.sync, it is pretty straight forward and should show you what you need to do: just replace the URL handling and drop some of the features you don't care about (such as emulateHTTP and emulateJSON).

Answer 2

The best option in your case is plugin like Backbone.service. It is Backbone service for non restful or semi restful apis.

// define server targets / endpoints
var targets = {
  login: ["/login", "post"],
  signup: ["/signup", "post"],
  logout: ["/logout", "get"],
  search: "/search" // defaults to get
  resetPassword: ["/resetpassword", "post"],
  updateSettings: ["/updateSettings", "post"]
};

// standalone service
var service = new Backbone.Service({ url: "http://localhost:5000", targets: targets });

// extend backbone model
var User = Backbone.Model.extend(service);

You can use it like this:

var user = new User();
user.login({ username: 'bob', password: 'secret' });

Answer 3

Here's an example of a modified Backbone.js ajax call:

var Forecast = Backbone.Model.extend({
  url: function() {
    return "http://api.wunderground.com/api/7eaec3b21b154448/conditions/q/" + this.get( "zip" ) + ".json";
  },
  parse : function( data, xhr ) {
    var observation = data.current_observation;
    return {
      id: observation.display_location.zip,
      url: observation.icon_url,
      state: observation.display_location.state_name,
      zip: observation.display_location.zip,
      city: observation.display_location.city,
      temperature: observation.temp_f
    };
  }
});

From: Elijah Manor's Intro to Backbone.JS