Question

When I try to override the urlRoot attribute of a model and do a fetch on that model, the urlRoot actually returns the whole function as a string. Here is what the overridden urlRoot looks like:

urlRoot: function() {
  return "test";
},

It returns the following:
http://localhost:8000/items/function%20()%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20return%20%22test%22;%20%20%20%20%7D

Also, where does the items portion of the URL come from?

Answer 1

URLRoot is expected to be a static string

• defined either during construction or

• during runtime

You can override the URl as a function if a logic lies in construction of the url.

Example

Backbone.Model.extend({

..
urlRoot:"test",
url:function(){

return this.urlRoot + "/" + this.cid;

},
..

}):