I'd like to implement a search page using Backbone.js
. The search parameters are taken from a simple form, and the server knows to parse the query parameters and return a json array of the results. My model looks like this, more or less:
App.Models.SearchResult = Backbone.Model.extend({
urlRoot: '/search'
});
App.Collections.SearchResults = Backbone.Collection.extend({
model: App.Models.SearchResult
});
var results = new App.Collections.SearchResults();
I'd like that every time I perform results.fetch()
, the contents of the search form will also be serialized with the GET
request. Is there a simple way to add this, or am I doing it the wrong way and should probably be handcoding the request and creating the collection from the returned results:
$.getJSON('/search', { /* search params */ }, function(resp){
// resp is a list of JSON data [ { id: .., name: .. }, { id: .., name: .. }, .... ]
var results = new App.Collections.SearchResults(resp);
// update views, etc.
});
Thoughts?