Alternate Implementation Appcelerator Titanium Models/Collections

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Implementing Appcelerator Titanium Models/Collections for Cloud Services without all the extra files

It is a PITA working with Appecelerator Alloy Models and Collection because you need to create these template files for everything, even of you are not using them. This is a "HACK" that I came up with after a few hours that appears to address the issue.

I am certain that there might be a cleaner way, which would require deeper understand of the underpinnings of Alloy, maybe someone can make a suggestion, maybe it will come to me later.

###Notes This code is using a ACS Sync Adapter customize for cloud services with promises integration

https://github.com/aaronksaunders/Appcelerator-Cloud-Services-Sync-Adapter

factory_snippet.js

// 
// helper function to create model/collection objects without all the files
//
function AlloyObjectFactory(_name, _Object) {
	var model,
	    definition = {
		config : {
			adapter : {
				type : "acs"
			},
			settings : {
				object_name : _name /* "clothing" - name to be associated with the object */,
				object_method : _Object /*"Objects" - this is a Custom ACS Object */
			}
		},
		extendModel : function(Model) {
			_.extend(Model.prototype, {});
			return Model;
		},
		extendCollection : function(Collection) {
			_.extend(Collection.prototype, {});
			return Collection;
		}
	};

	model = Alloy.M(_name, definition, []);

	return {
		Model : model,
		Collection : Alloy.C(_name, definition, model)
	};
}

index.js

// create the Model and Collection for Clothing Object.
// Need to find a cleaner way to do this, my Javascript mojo is 
// weak since it has been a long day!
var ClothingCollection = new AlloyObjectFactory('clothing', "Objects").Collection;
var ClothingModel = new AlloyObjectFactory('clothing', "Objects").Model;

// we can use Appcelerator Cloud Services object also...
// var PhotoCollection = new AlloyObjectFactory('photo', "Photos").Collection;
// var PhotoModel = new AlloyObjectFactory('photo', "Photos").Model;

// create a new model object
var clothing = new ClothingModel();

// set parameters for data for object
var clothesData = {
	type : 'suit',
	color : 'grey pinstripe',
	tags : ['work', 'wool', 'grey']
};

// Save object - ACS adapter has promises implemented
clothing.save(clothesData).then( function( _clothesModel ){
  console.info('addClothes - ' + JSON.stringify(_clothesModel));  
}, function(_error){
  console.error(JSON.stringify(_error));
})