I have UserModel
: UserView
and UserCollection
: UserCollectionView
. With this, I am trying to bind a click
event to the UserView
(I am doing this in UserView
). So, this is the code I have:
var root = 'http://localhost:5000/api/v1';
var app = {};
// Backbone Model
app.UserModel = Backbone.Model.extend({
defaults: {
// urlRoot: root + '/users',
name: 'Default Name',
email: '30',
username: 'default_username'
},
initialize: function() {
this.set({
id: this.get('username')
});
console.log('User model \'' + this.id + '\' has been initialized.');
},
// parse: function(data) {
// console.log('Model parse funciton called');
// return data;
// }
});
// Backbone Model View
app.UserView = Backbone.View.extend({
// el: '#users-list',
// tagName: 'div',
el: '.user-box-wrapper',
events: {
'click .user-data': 'userClicked'
},
userClicked: function(ev) {
console.log("User selected");
// console.log(ev.currentTarget);
},
template: _.template($('#connections-user-template').html()),
initialize: function() {
this.render();
},
render: function() {
$('#users-list').append(this.template(this.model.toJSON()));
// this.$el.append( this.template( this.model.toJSON()));
console.log('User view is rendered');
}
});
// Backbone Collection
app.UserCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
model: app.UserModel,
url: root + '/users',
initialize: function() {
// this.fetch();
},
parse: function(data) {
// console.log(data.data);
return data.data;
}
});
// Backbone Collection View
app.UserCollectionView = Backbone.View.extend({
el: '#users-list',
template: _.template($('#connections-template').html()),
initialize: function() {
this.connections = new app.UserCollection();
var self = this;
this.connections.fetch().done(function() {
self.render();
});
},
render: function() {
console.log('User collection view is rendered');
this.$el.html(this.template());
// this.$el.append( this.template( this.model.toJSON()));
this.connections.each(function(user) {
console.log('User : ' + user.get('id'));
var userView = new app.UserView({
model: user
});
// userView.model.fetch();
// userView.render();
});
}
});
var connectionsView = new app.UserCollectionView();
The JSON data actually returns 14 objects (or UserModels in this case). The problem is, if I click the first user view, it is triggered 13 times, and the second view click is triggered 12 times and so on, the last view click event not being triggered at all when clicked.
The individual UserViews are rendered once each, however (that's what I think at least). Can someone please explain what the problem here is and what exactly is happening here?
P.S. - I am aware of the workaround of binding the events in the CollectionView.
Edit 1
This is the DOM structure:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hey there</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../static/css/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../static/css/index.css">
<script src="/static/js/jquery-2.2.0.js"></script>
<script src="/static/js/underscore-1.8.3.js"></script>
<script src="/static/js/backbone-1.2.3.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<header id="top">
<div id="logo-wrapper">
<img src="../static/img/logo.png" alt="Logo" id="logo">
</div>
<div id="top-links">
<div id="top-profile-box" class="toplink">
<div id="top-profile-data-box">
<div id="top-profile-data-name">Kevin Isaac</div>
<div id="top-profile-data-passion">Writer</div>
</div>
<img id="top-profile-image" src="../static/img/user1.jpg" alt="">
</div>
<div id="notification-icon" class="toplink"></div>
<div id="top-message-icon" class="toplink"></div>
<div id="logout-icon" class="toplink"></div>
</div>
</header>
<div id="middle">
<nav id="side-nav">
<div id="side-nav-top">
<div class="side-nav-link" id="side-nav-home-link">
<div class="side-nav-link-img"></div>
<div class="side-nav-link-title">Home</div>
</div>
<div class="side-nav-link" id="side-nav-profile-link">
<div class="side-nav-link-img"></div>
<div class="side-nav-link-title">Profile</div>
</div>
<div class="side-nav-link" id="side-nav-messages-link">
<div class="side-nav-link-img"></div>
<div class="side-nav-link-title">Message</div>
</div>
<div class="side-nav-link" id="side-nav-account-link">
<div class="side-nav-link-img"></div>
<div class="side-nav-link-title">Account</div>
</div>
</div>
</nav>
<div id="main-content">
<!-- Start of page specific HTML -->
<div id="content-title">
<div class="content-subtitle" id="connections">Connections</div>
<div class="content-subtitle" id="followers">Followers</div>
<div class="content-subtitle" id="followings">Followings</div>
</div>
<div id="content-body">
<div id="users-box">
<div id="users-list">No connection</div>
<!-- Backbone Template Starts -->
<script type="text/template" id="connections-template"></script>
<script type="text/template" id="connections-user-template">
<div class="user-box-wrapper">
<div class="user-box">
<div class="user-pic-wrapper">
<img src="/static/img/user1.jpg" alt="">
</div>
<div class="user-data" id="boox">
<div class="user-name"><%= name %></div>
<div class="user-passion"><%= username %></div>
<div class="user-city"><%= email %></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</script>
<!-- Backbone Template Ends -->
<div id="users-side-box">
<div id="users-box-search">
<input id="user-search" type="text" name="">
</div>
<div id="user-metadata">
<div id="metadata-user-top-box">
<div id="metadata-user-image-wrapper">
<img src="/static/img/user1.jpg" alt="">
</div>
<div id="metadata-user-name-box">
<div id="metadata-name">Name's Bond</div>
<div id="metadata-passion">Assassin</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="metadata-user-bottom-box">
<div class="metadata-user-attribute">
<span class="metadata-property">Studied at: </span>
<span class="metadata-value">Karunya University </span>
</div>
<div class="metadata-user-attribute">
<span class="metadata-property">Native City: </span>
<span class="metadata-value">London</span>
</div>
<div class="metadata-user-attribute">
<span class="metadata-property">Website: </span>
<span class="metadata-value">www.007.com</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- End of page specific HTML -->
</div>
<aside id="main-aside">
Aside one two therr
</aside>
</div>
<script src="../static/js/index.min.js"></script>
</body>
</html>