Backbone.Subset v0.1.1

Backbone.Subset

A subset collection that contains pointers to models from a parent collection.

Use case?

Having a collection that represents only a subset of your models.

For instance having a Archived tasks, you want to be sure that adding, deleting or changing a Task will update that subset collection according to a given sieve

How does it work?

The API is almost the same as Backbone.Collection.

• You must implement a parent function that returns the collection the subset belongs.
• You must implement a sieve function that will be used to filter the parent collection.
• You can pass the option {noparent: true} on doing an add or a remove if you don't want this action to bubble to the parent collection.

Models.Task = Backbone.Model.extend({
  initialize: function () {
    this.collection = tasks;
  }
, isArchived: function () {
    return this.get('archived');
  }
});

Collections.Tasks = Backbone.Collection.extend({model: Models.Task});
Collections.ArchivedTasks = Backbone.Subset.extend({
  parent: function () {
    return tasks;
  }
, sieve: function (task) {
    return task.isArchived();
  }
});

tasks = new Collections.Tasks();
archivedTasks = new Collections.ArchivedTasks();

tasks.reset([{archived: true}, {archived: false}]);

assert.equal(task.length, 2);
assert.equal(archivedTasks.length, 1);

Tests

You must have node installed in order to run the tests.

npm install
make

License

(The MIT License)

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