Passing urls to relational collections in backbone

Question

I'm using Backbone relational and it's great. The problem I have run into is when I need the backend to provide the url for models to attach to.

This isn't such a problem when using one-to-one relationships because the model can hold onto the url as an attribute of itself.

The collection on the other hand creates a separate model within itself.

What is the best way to bind these together. Examples below

{
    "user": {
        "url": "http://example.com/api/user/1"
    },
    "permissions": {
        "url": "http://example.com/api/user/1/permissions"
    }
}

In the above example, I want user to be a model with the url provided, and the permissions a collection, with the url provided.

What I have tried is to get the collection working is the following:

{
    "permissions": {
        "url": "https://example.com/api/user/1/permissions"
        "data": []
    }
}

But I wasn't able to run a parse that extracts the variables out.

Answer 1

If you have not set {parse: true} on your relation definition (documentation), then you should do so, and see if that fixes your problem. Otherwise, it would help if you provided more code.