Question

I’m calling save() on a backbone model to do a POST operation on the back-end. The operation completes successfully server-side (I can see the record added and the response status comes back as 200). Currently the RESTful api call is returning the ID of the inserted record in the response body. I have success and error callbacks defined that I pass to the save call, but success is never called. Instead, the Backbone code is choking on that ID that gets returned from the REST call. Is there a better way for me to handle this from the client end or should the REST api implementation be returning something else?

Answer 1

By default I believe it expects the changed properties of the object as JSON. See: http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#Sync