A Backbone.js Collection of multiple Model subclasses

Question

I have a REST Json API that returns a list \"logbooks\". There are many types of logbooks that implement different but similar behavior. The server side implementation of th

Answer 1

Yes. You can override the parse function on the collection (I'm gonna use javascript instead of coffeescript, because it's what I know, but the mapping should be easy):

LogbookCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
    model: Logbook,
    url: "/api/logbooks",
    parse: function(response){
      var self = this;
      _.each(response, function(logbook){
          switch(logbook.type){
             case "ULM":
               self.add(new UmlLogBook(logbook);
               break;
             case "Plane":
               ...
          }
      }
    }
 });

Hope this helps.