Question

I have a backbone collection which is setup to fetch results (events in my case) from a URL and then perform a little bit of data manipulation on the response in a parse method. When there are results provided by the api (as follows), the fetch is successful and everything behaves as expected.

{
  events: [
   { event1... },
   { event2... },
   ...
  ]
}

However, when the resultset is empty (as follows), the fetch runs its error function instead of the success call, and never seems to execute my parse method at all.

{
  events: []
}

Is this behaving as expected? As in, should backbone be throwing the error when there are 0 results, and if so, is there any way of fixing this?

Answer 1

This error was being triggered by the APIs HTTP response code (500). As a result, Backbone was behaving correctly.