Sample Code:
this.books = this.getBooksFromDatabase();
this.publishedBooks = this.books.filter(function(book) {
return book.get("isPublished") === "1";
});
Here lies the problem:
this.books.filter, returns an array of the models. I've tried wrapping the array, as such:
var publishedBooks = _( this.books.filter(function(book) {
return book.get("isPublished") === "1";
}))
as recommended by this post:
https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/issues/120
But i still can't run things like:
publishedBooks.each(...), or
publishedBooks.get(...)
What am I missing? Is there a way to convert the returned array into a collection?
You could either instantiate a new backbone collection and pass in the array.
var myPublishedBooks = new MyBooksCollection(publishedBooks);
Or you could refresh your original collection.
this.books.refresh(publishedBooks)
Note that the 0.5.0 release in July 2011 renamed refresh
to reset
, so you can achieve this in newer versions of Backbone with;
this.books.reset(publishedBooks)
var collection = new Backbone.collection(yourArray)
I often do something like this:
var collection = new MySpecialCollection([...]);
//And later...
var subset = new collection.constructor(collection.filter(...));
This will create an instance of the same type as your original collection, with the filtered models, so you can continue with the collection methods (each, filter, find, pluck, etc).