Marionette itemViewEvents; event dispatching and binding

Question

I'm having some trouble understanding how event dispatching and binding to events between children parents work in the awesomeness that is Marionette.

Is it correct that I can trigger a custom event from an itemView like this:

var Item = Marionette.ItemView.extend({
    events: {
      "click .foo": "do:something"
    }
});

var itemCollection = Marionette.CollectionView.extend({
    itemView: item,
    initialize: function () {
        this.on("itemview:do:something", this.onSomething, this);
    }
}};

Is there some shortcut to binding to the itemView events like I would DOM events:

 var itemCollection = Marionette.CollectionView.extend({
    itemView: item,
    itemviewevents: {
        "itemview:do:something": "onSomething"
    }
}};

Thanks :).

Answer 1

You're confusing triggers and events. Your code should be

var Item = Marionette.ItemView.extend({
    triggers: {
      "click .foo": "do:something"
    }
});

Use the events hash to have a function called when an event takes place, use the triggers hash to have a trigger executed.