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<link href="../common/cats.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
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<h1>A Backbone.js example about cats I've met</h1>
<marquee><p>As you can tell, you can make a very complicated web page with this stuff.</p></marquee>
<script id="cat-template" type="text/underscore-template">
<div class="entry">
<h2><%= name %>!</h2>
<h3>age <%= age %></h3>
<div class="body">
<%= description %>
</div>
</div>
</script>
<div id="content"></div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../common/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../common/underscore.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="backbone.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../src/backbone.tabletopSync.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../src/tabletop.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var public_spreadsheet_url = 'https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0AmYzu_s7QHsmdE5OcDE1SENpT1g2R2JEX2tnZ3ZIWHc&output=html';
/*
You need to declare the tabletop instance separately, then feed it into the model/collection
You *must* specify wait: true so that it doesn't try to fetch when you initialize
*/
var storage = Tabletop.init( { key: public_spreadsheet_url,
wait: true } )
/*
Need to specify that you'd like to sync using Backbone.tabletopSync
Can specify tabletop attributes, or you can do it on the collection
*/
var Cat = Backbone.Model.extend({
idAttribute: 'name',
tabletop: {
instance: storage,
sheet: 'Cats'
},
sync: Backbone.tabletopSync
})
/*
Need to specify that you'd like to sync using Backbone.tabletopSync
Need to specify a tabletop key and sheet
*/
var CatCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
// Reference to this collection's model.
model: Cat,
tabletop: {
instance: storage,
sheet: 'Cats'
},
sync: Backbone.tabletopSync
});
var CatView = Backbone.View.extend({
tagname: 'div',
template: _.template($('#cat-template').html()),
render: function() {
$(this.el).html(this.template(this.model.toJSON()));
return this;
}
})
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
/*
You need to initialize Tabletop before you do aaaaanything.
You might think it'd be a good idea to put that into backbone.tabletopSync,
but IMHO the fact that you could put the key/url into any model anywhere
ever sounds like trouble.
*/
$(document).ready( function() {
var cats = new CatCollection();
cats.fetch({ success: showInfo });
});
function showInfo(cats) {
var bosco_view = new CatView({ model: cats.get('Bosco') });
$("#content").append( bosco_view.render().el );
/*
Fetching on models works as long as you've specified a sheet
and an idAttribute for the Backbone.Model (you can always
use rowNumber, it comes baked in to Tabletop)
*/
thomas = new Cat({name: 'Thomas'})
thomas.fetch();
var thomas_view = new CatView({ model: thomas });
$("#content").append( thomas_view.render().el );
}
document.write("The published spreadsheet is located at <a target='_new' href='" + public_spreadsheet_url + "'>" + public_spreadsheet_url + "</a>");
</script>
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