Question

Is this the right way of doing things. Also here i am passing around this context via _this is there a better way of doing it

var messages = {
    getLoadMore : function(_this){
        ...............
    },

    getSwappingData : function(_this){
        .................
    },
}

jQuery('.js-message-swap').live('click', function(){
    _this = jQuery(this);
    messages.getSwappingData(_this);
    return false;
});

Answer 1

What you have will work fine. A shorter version would be to pass the reference of the function to the click handler, which will then apply this to the external function. Try this:

var messages = {
    getLoadMore : function() {
        var $el = $(this);
        return false;
    },

    getSwappingData : function() {
        var $el = $(this);
        return false;
    }
}

jQuery('.js-message-swap').live('click', messages.getSwappingData);