Backbone Live Collection End Point Fetch - cid overwrite

by FiNGAHOLiC

HTML

<script src="http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/underscore.js"></script>
<script src="http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/backbone.js"></script>
<h1> Cat Tweets: </h1>
<div id="example_content"></div>

JavaScript

// A container for a tweet object.
var Tweet = Backbone.Model.extend({
    initialize: function(attributes, options) {
        this.cid = this.id;
    }
});

// A basic view rendering a single tweet
var TweetView = Backbone.View.extend({
    tagName: "li",
    className: "tweet",

    render: function() {

        // just render the tweet text as the content of this element.
        $(this.el).html(this.model.id + ": " + this.model.get("text"));
        return this;
    }
});

// A collection holding many tweet objects.
// also responsible for performing the
// search that fetches them.
var Tweets = Backbone.Collection.extend({
    model: Tweet,
    initialize: function(models, options) {
        this.query = options.query;
    },
    url: function() {
        return "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=" + this.query + "&callback=?";
    },
    parse: function(data) {

        // note that the original result contains tweets inside of a results array, not at 
        // the root of the response.
        return data.results;
    }
});

// A rendering of a collection of tweets.
var TweetsView = Backbone.View.extend({
    tagName: "ul",
    className: "tweets",
    initialize: function(options) {
        // Bind on initialization rather than rendering. This might seem
        // counter-intuitive because we are effectively "rendering" this
        // view by creating other views. The reason we are doing this here
        // is because we only want to bind to "add" once, but effectively we should
        // be able to call render multiple times without subscribing to "add" more
        // than once.
        this.collection.bind("add", function(model) {

            var tweetView = new TweetView({
                model: model
            });

            $(this.el).prepend(tweetView.render().el);
        }, this);
    },
    render: function() {
        return this;
    }
});

// Create a new cat tweet collection
var catTweets = new Tweets([], {
    query:...