Current the results of my json is this.
<div id="item-list">
<div class="row" id="featured-item">
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
</div>
</div>
Is that possible to make it like this?
<div id="item-list">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6"><p>Content Righ Here</p></div>
</div>
</div>
Here is my current jS code:
var Feed = Backbone.Model.extend({
url: function () {
//API LINK HERE
},
defaults: {
// SOME ATTRIBUTES HERE
}
});
var Stream = Backbone.Collection.extend({
url: function () {
//API LINK HERE
return link;
},
page: 0,
sort: 'date_created',
order: 'desc',
limit: 12,
model: Feed,
parse: function (response) {
$('.total_records').text(response._count);
var tags = response.data;
this.totalRecords = response._count;
return tags;
}
});
// Master view
var DirectoryView = Backbone.View.extend({
el: $("#main-section"),
initialize: function () {
this.collection = this.options.collection;
this.isLoading = false;
this.render();
this.collection.on("add", this.renderFeed, this);
},
events: {
'click #loadmore-feed' : 'loadMore'
},
render: function () {
var that = this;
this.isLoading = true;
this.collection.fetch({success: function () {
_.each(that.collection.models, function (item) {
that.renderFeed(item);
}, this);
that.isLoading = false;
$("abbr.timeago").timeago();
that.$el.find('#load-more-container').html(
_.template($('#load-more-template').html())
);
}
});
if(!this.collection.totalRecords) {
$('#load-more-container').hide();
}
},
loadMore: function () {
$('#load-more-container').hide();
if(this.collection.totalRecords > this.collection.page) {
this.collection.page += 12;
this.render();
$('#load-more-container').show();
}
},
renderFeed: function (item) {
var optionsView = new OptionsView({
model: item
});
this.$el.find('#item-list > div').append($(optionsView.render().el).hide().fadeIn('slow'));
}
});
var OptionsView = Backbone.View.extend({
tagName: "div",
className: "col-md-6",
template: $("#emp-list-item").html(),
render: function () {
var tmpl = _.template(this.template);
this.$el.html(tmpl(this.model.toJSON()));
return this;
}
});
HTML Code
<div id="main-section">
<div id="item-list">
<div class="row" id="featured-item"></div>
</div>
<div id="load-more-container"></div>
</div>
<!-- backbonejs view template -->
<script id="emp-list-item" type="text/template">
<p>Content Righ Here</p>
</script>
<script id="load-more-template" type="text/template">
<p>
<div class="progress xs progress-striped">
<div class="progress-bar progress-bar-primary" role="progressbar" aria-valuenow="60" aria-valuemin="0" aria-valuemax="100" style="width: 100%">
<span class="sr-only">60% Complete (warning)</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="tcenter">
<a href="javascript:void(0)" id="loadmore-feed">Load more</a>
</div>
</p>
</script>
<!-- Script for autoloading on mobile device -->
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var paginatedItems = new Stream();
var directoryView = new DirectoryView({collection: paginatedItems});
$(window).scroll(function() {
if (directoryView.$el.is(':visible') && !directoryView.isLoading && $(window).scrollTop() + $(window).height() > getDocHeight() - 400 ) {
directoryView.loadMore();
}
});
});
</script>
Your question title concerns JSON but your example concerns HTML, which are totally different concerns. I cannot tell if you mean "can I produce this type of HTML structure" or "can I make my collection hold this structure of data."
Without addressing core issues, you should still move the fetch out of the render, and make the render something that happens on success. For instance:
initialize: function(models) {
// ...do stuff...
if (!models)
this.fetch({success: this.render, error: this.error});
_.bindAll(this, 'render', 'error', 'render');
},
In your success, you should prepare for render:
render: function(collection) {
var modelsFlat = collection.models;
var nested = _(list).chain().partition(function(x) {
// below makes an array of evens and odds indices
return (_(list).indexOf(x) % 2) == 0;
}).zip() // this turns columns into rows, ie [[1,3,5],[2,4,6]] => [[1,2],[3,4],[5,6]]
.value(); // this unwraps (no more chaining)
_(nested).each(function(n) {
var inner = new Backbone.Collection(n);
var innerView = new OptionsView(inner);
innerView.render();
});
// Do the rest of your current render
}
And your new DirectoryItemView is pretty much the OptionsView, which involves no server-side stuff.
So this:
fetch on initialize of the outer view to get the outer collectionsuccess calls renderrender, reorganizes each pair of items into a new little collectionOptionsView with that collection, and renders it