Question

It seems like at the moment when I call get on a backbone.js collection, it passes the id by cookie rather than restfully passing into my GET method. In the Request Header it’s coming up like this:

Cookie:posts=ag5kZXZ-c29jcmVuY2h1c3IOCxIIUG9zdExpc3QYAQw;
dev_appserver_login=”[e-mail]:False:114323764255192059842″

This is what I have:

The get call:

postCollection.get(id)

and the get method:

def get(self, id):

I want to use the id in the get method rather than having to use the cookie.

Answer 1

Probably the best way to accomplish this is something like the following.

var model = collection.get(id);
// If the model is not present locally..
if (!model) {
  // Add empty model with id.
  model = collection.add([{id: id}]);
  // Populate model attributes from server.
  model.fetch({success: successCallback, error: errorCallback });
}

collection.get(id) shouldn’t be making a request to the backend.