Question

I’ve setup a backbone collection for Users and when I execute the fetch method, I get back a JSON object along the lines of: {"users": [{...}, {...}, ...], size: number} from the server. Confusingly, when I execute the code below, instead of getting each user object, I get a single “child” object, which has two attributes: users and size; can anyone help me understand why? Thanks.

display: function(){
  this.collection.each(function(user){ 
    console.log("main", user); 
  });
}

Answer 1

Add a method on the collection called parse:

var collection = new Backbone.Collection({
   parse: function(response) {
       return response.users;
   }
});