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I am looking for a VERY simple example that shows wiring up Knockback code to a backbone model that connects via RESTful service. I am using ServiceStack|c# backend. All of the links below are too complicated and use localStore rather than a RESTful service via url. I also prefer to see examples in Javascript not CoffeeScript.
My example url is something like localhost/entities where hitting this will cause the RESTful webservice to return all of the entities. Hitting it with localhost/entity/1 would return the entity with an Id of 1.
_http://kmalakoff.github.com/knockback/index.html
_https://github.com/kmalakoff/knockback-reference-app/
_https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc
The following is the example from knockback tutorial on the first link:
Models, Collection, ViewModel, and Bindings:
// Generated by CoffeeScript 1.3.3
var model, view_model;
model = new Backbone.Model({
first_name: "Planet",
last_name: "Earth"
});
view_model = kb.viewModel(model);
view_model.full_name = ko.computed((function() {
return "" + (this.first_name()) + " " + (this.last_name());
}), view_model);
ko.applyBindings(view_model, $('#kb_view_model_computed')[0]);
But there is no mention of how you would wire the backbone model up to your RESTful webservice.
There are examples of how do this via Backbone but I am uncertain as to how things change when using Knockback.
The following links were found, but not helpful:
_http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7992431/using-knockoutjs-backbone-together
_http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9704220/is-knockback-js-production-ready
_http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10434203/defining-models-on-server-side-when-using-mvvm-with-knockout-js
Thanks in advance for any assistance provided. Btw you don't want hyperlinks you get underscores... ;)
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With much help and support from Kevin Malakoff from the great Knockback project I was able to get a small example working! I used the ServiceStack Backbone Todos project as a starting point.
c# file: Global.asax.cs
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.SessionState;
using ServiceStack.Redis;
using ServiceStack.ServiceInterface;
using ServiceStack.WebHost.Endpoints;
namespace MyApp
{
public class Person
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string FirstName { get; set; }
public string LastName { get; set; }
}
public class PersonService : RestServiceBase<Person>
{
public static Person kevin = new Person { Id = 1, FirstName = "Kevin", LastName = "Malakoff" };
public static Person scott = new Person { Id = 2, FirstName = "Scott", LastName = "Idler" };
public static List<Person> people = new List<Person> { kevin, scott };
public override object OnGet(Person person)
{
if (person.Id != default(int))
return people[person.Id-1];
return people;
}
public override object OnPost(Person person)
{
return base.OnPost(person);
}
public override object OnPut(Person person)
{
return OnPost(person);
}
public override object OnDelete(Person person)
{
return base.OnDelete(person);
}
}
public class AppHost : AppHostBase
{
public AppHost() : base("MyApp", typeof(PersonService).Assembly) { }
public override void Configure(Funq.Container container)
{
ServiceStack.Text.JsConfig.EmitCamelCaseNames = true;
Routes
.Add<Person>("/persons")
.Add<Person>("/persons/{Id}");
}
}
public class WebApiApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
{
protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
new AppHost().Init();
}
}
}
html file: default.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>MyApp2</title>
<script>window.JSON || document.write('<script src="http://ajax.cdnjs.com/ajax/libs/json2/20110223/json2.js">\x3C/script>')</script>
<script src="Scripts/jquery-1.8.0.js" type="text/javascript" ></script>
<script src="Scripts/knockback-full-stack-0.16.1.js" type="text/javascript" ></script>
<script src="myapp.js" type="text/javascript" ></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="myapp">
<div class="title">
<h1>MyApp</h1>
</div>
<div class="content">
<div id='kb_observable'>
<p>First name: <input class='text' data-bind="value: firstName" /></p>
<p>Last name: <input class='input-small pull-right' data-bind="value: lastName" /></p>
<p>Hello, <span data-bind="text: fullName"></span>!</p>
</div>
<div id="kb_collection_observable">
<div data-bind="if: persons">
<span>Has Persons</span>
</div>
<div data-bind="foreach: persons">
<p>First name: <input class='text' data-bind="value: firstName" /></p>
<p>Last name: <input class='input-small pull-right' data-bind="value: lastName" /></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
javascript file: myapp.js
$(function() {
//model var PersonModel = Backbone.Model.extend({ urlRoot: '/MyApp/persons' }); var model = new PersonModel({ id: 1 }); model.fetch(); //viewmodel var PersonViewModel = function (person) { this.firstName = kb.observable(person, 'firstName'); this.lastName = kb.observable(person, 'lastName'); this.fullName = ko.computed((function () { return "" + (this.firstName()) + " " + (this.lastName()); }), this); }; var personViewModel = new PersonViewModel(model); //binding ko.applyBindings(personViewModel, $('#kb_observable')[0]); //model var PersonsModel = Backbone.Collection.extend({ model: PersonModel, url: '/MyApp/persons' }); var personsModel = new PersonsModel(); personsModel.fetch(); //viewmodel var PersonsViewModel = function (persons) { this.persons = kb.collectionObservable(persons) }; var personsViewModel = new PersonsViewModel(personsModel); //binding ko.applyBindings(personsViewModel, $('#kb_collection_observable')[0]); });
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