Question

I want to implement the current_user for backbone.
I do this via sending a request to app.com/current_user.json

The async part of fetch does not seem to work

class App.Models.CurrentUser extends Backbone.Model
  url: '/current'
  defaults: 
    "created_at":"never",
    "email":"new",
    "id": "0",
    "updated_at":"always"

  current_user:() =>
    @fetch(
      succes:(response,status) =>
        console.log(status)
        return status
        )

Console log prints out exactly what I am trying to return, however the function itself returns an object with responseText as json that I want to get from this function.

Answer 1

Its cause it just returns the model and the server response. This is the part from the backbone source that handles the response on fetch

  var success = options.success;
  options.success = function(resp, status, xhr) {
    if (!model.set(model.parse(resp, xhr), options)) return false;
    if (success) success(model, resp);
  };

So if you wanna have the model returned, just use the first parameter passed into your success method.

current_user:() =>
    @fetch(
      succes:(model,response) =>
        console.log(model)
        return model
        )