backbone.subviews

backbone.subiews.js

// I wrote this when Backbone was like v0.2 - now there are many many tools like Marionette,
// and even things native to Backbone (like `stopListening`) that invalidate a lot of this
var SubView = Backbone.View.extend({
    // tagName: must be implemented
    // className: must be implemented
    // template: must be implemented

    initialize: function() {
        this.model.on("change", this.render, this);
        this.model.on("close", this.close, this);
    },

    render: function(options) {
        console.log("rendering subview for",this.model.get("name"));
        var defaultOptions = {};
        options = typeof options === "object" ? $.extend(true, defaultOptions, options) : defaultOptions;
        this.$el.html(this.template({model: this.model.toJSON(), options: options})).fadeIn("fast");
        return this;
    },

    close: function() {
        console.log("closing subview for",this.model.get("name"));
        this.model.off("change", this.render, this);
        this.model.off("close", this.close, this);
        this.remove();
    }
});
var ViewCollection = Backbone.View.extend({
    // el: must be implemented
    // subViewClass: must be implemented

    initialize: function() {
        var self = this;
        self.collection.on("add", self.addSubView, self);
        self.collection.on("remove", self.removeSubView, self);
        self.collection.on("reset", self.reset, self);
        self.collection.on("closeAll", self.closeAll, self);
        self.collection.reset = function(models, options) {
            self.closeAll();
            Backbone.Collection.prototype.reset.call(this, models, options);
        };
        self.reset();
    },

    reset: function() {
        this.$el.empty();
        this.render();
    },

    render: function() {
        console.log("rendering viewcollection for",this.collection.models);
        var self = this;
        self.collection.each(function(model) {
            self.addSubView(model);
        });
        return self;
    },

    addSubView: function(model) {
        var sv = new this.subViewClass({model: model});
        this.$el.append(sv.render().el);
    },

    removeSubView: function(model) {
        model.trigger("close");
    },

    closeAll: function() {
        this.collection.each(function(model) {
            model.trigger("close");
        });
    }
});



// usage

var PartView = SubView.extend({
    tagName: "tr",
    className: "part",
    template: _.template($("#part-row-template").html())
});

var PartListView = ViewCollection.extend({
    el: $("table#parts"),
    subViewClass: PartView
});