Backbone.js Collections - json

Question

I am working with backbone.js. I am trying to send a request to restful service i am getting the resultset as json object as shown
{
"Msgs": [
"Alert",
"Not"
],
"MessageStatus": [
"Active",
"Inactive"
],
"date": {
"From": "2013-04-25",
"To": "2013-06-25"
},
"Mlist": {
"Status": "PND",
"Role": "Admin,User",
"To": "2013-06-24",
"Id": 6,
"Datecreated": "2013-06-24",
"Title": "Title5",
"From": "2013-06-20"
}
}.
I am putting the json object extracting and setting it to collection but I am not able to get particular model from the collection with specific id.

Answer 1

If you want to make your model can be identified with id. You have to set the id in the attributes hash:
{
"id": 1001,
"Msgs": [
"Alert",
"Not"
],
"MessageStatus": [
"Active",
"Inactive"
],
"date": {
"From": "2013-04-25",
"To": "2013-06-25"
},
"Mlist": {
"Status": "PND",
"Role": "Admin,User",
"To": "2013-06-24",
"Id": 6,
"Datecreated": "2013-06-24",
"Title": "Title5",
"From": "2013-06-20"
}
}
Then using backbone collection "findWhere" method to get the specific id model.
//assume msgCollection is which you put the models
var model = msgCollection.findWhere({id: 1001});
Hope this is helpful for you.

Answer 2

I think you need to set your model and parse your input data. Checkout http://backbonejs.org/#Collection-model, http://backbonejs.org/#Model-parse and http://backbonejs.org/#Collection-parse.