I am using Backbone and I have a view with events defined:
....
events: {
'click .search-button': 'setModelTerm',
'change .source-select': 'setModelSourceId',
'change .source-select': 'activateSource'
},
....
I would like to trigger two methods when the event change .source-select
fires. The problem is that the last entry in the event object overrides the preceding entry.
How can I trigger two methods in one event?
(I am trying to prevent writing another method that calls those two methods)
You can pass a wrapper function in your hash of events to call your two methods.
From http://backbonejs.org/#View-delegateEvents
Events are written in the format
{"event selector": "callback"}
. The callback may be either the name of a method on the view, or a direct function body.
Try
events: {
'click .search-button': 'setModelTerm',
'change .source-select': function(e) {
this.setModelSourceId(e);
this.activateSource(e);
}
},
The only thing that is keeping you from adding the same event/selector pair is that events
is a hash - jQuery can handle multiple bindings to the same element/event pair. Good news though, jQuery events allow you to namespace events by adding a .myNamespace
suffix. Practically speaking, this produces the same results but you can generate many different keys.
var MyView = Backbone.View.extend({
events: {
'click.a .foo': 'doSomething',
'click.b .foo': 'doSomethingElse'
'click.c .foo': 'doAnotherThing', // you can choose any namespace as they are pretty much transparent.
},
doSomething: function() {
// ...
},
doSomethingElse: function() {
// ...
},
doAnotherThing: function() {
// ...
},
});
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