What is the least ugly way to force Backbone.sync updates to use POST instead of PUT?

Question

Some of my Backbone models should always use POST, instead of POST for create and PUT for update. The server I persist these models to is capable of supporting all other ve

Answer 1

the way I've done it is to override sync() thusly

Models.Thing = Backbone.Model.extend({
    initialize: function() {
        this.url = "/api/thing/" + this.id;
    },
    sync: function(method, model, options) {
        if (method === "read") method = "create";    // turns GET into POST
        return Backbone.sync(method, model, options);
    },
    defaults: {
        ...