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vegtabill
vegtabill

Reputation: 83

Backbone.js: form fields are not being sent in the request

Please forgive the newb question, but I am not finding answers elsewhere... probably because I'm not sure what the question should really be.

I am VERY new to Backbone.js, and I am trying to figure out why changes in the page's form fields are not being sent in POST/PUT requests. The 'change' event IS firing, and the View is catching it, but the model does not have the fields it should have from the form. I haven't been able to find anything that deals with this, so I am fairly certain we have just done something very wrong in our app... but I don't know how to figure out what that might be.

I realize this is not the most complete question, so please let me know if more info is required. I am so new to this that I am not even sure what one might need to track this down.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance, vegtabill

Upvotes: 0

Views: 181

Answers (1)

Jimmy Miller
Jimmy Miller

Reputation: 1319

With backbone.js, there is more than one way to do something. I personally update my model with the data from the view and then json serialize that data for transmission to the server side if I'm not using the REST capabilities build into backbone collections of models (i.e. the fetch, save, etc.) You can use the model.set() method to do this. I am fairly new to backbone too so please don't slam me if you take offense to my approach. I know there are others out there that know a lot more about this topic than me. This approach works for me and it enforces my personal goal of the model not having a reference to the view. That separation is important to me personally. To be more explicit, I listen for events on my view that I then use to update my model.

Upvotes: 1

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