I'm pretty new to Backbone and I've been trying to create autocomplete functionality with it, fed by an ASMX webservice. The issue I seem to have is whilst my webservice returns in JSON (after a painful battle with it), it wraps the response in a 'd' (dataset). How do I get the view to understand this and get at the correct data?
Here is my code:-
var Airline = Backbone.Model.extend({
initialize: function () {},
defaults: {
name: 'Airline Name',
rating: 50,
icon: '/blank.png'
}
});
var AirlineCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
model: Airline,
contentType: "application/json",
url: '/ControlTower/public/runway.asmx/all-airlines',
parse: function (response) {
return response;
}
});
var SelectionView = Backbone.View.extend({
el : $('#airline'),
render: function() {
$(this.el).html("You Selected : " + this.model.get('AirlineName'));
return this;
},
});
var airlines = new AirlineCollection();
airlines.fetch({async: false, contentType: "application/json" });
var airlineNames = airlines.pluck("AirlineName");
$("#airline").autocomplete({
source : airlineNames,
minLength : 1,
select: function(event, ui){
var selectedModel = airlines.where({name: ui.item.value})[0];
var view = new SelectionView({model: selectedModel});
view.render();
}
});
Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? I've been sitting here for too long now!
Help is appreciated ;)