Revesiting Backbone.js View Rendering

Re:Revesiting Backbone.js View Rendering by zimbatm on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @11:05AM (#5407668)

I'm not familiar with Backbone but isn't `model.toJSON()` unnecessarily removing useful data types (like Date) that aren't available in JSON ?

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Re:Revesiting Backbone.js View Rendering by papercrane on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @11:36AM (#5407870)

You're probably thinking of `JSON.stringify()`. `model.toJSON()` just returns a clone of the models attributes object.

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Re:Revesiting Backbone.js View Rendering by zimbatm on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @11:56AM (#5408043)

So `model.toJSON()` isn't supposed to return a JSON-compatible data structure ?

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Re:Revesiting Backbone.js View Rendering by papercrane on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @12:38PM (#5408357)

It's supposed to return an object that is suitable for turning into JSON, but it won't convert any of items members. JSON.stringify relies on the toJSON functions of the members to serialize themselves.

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