Accessing parent class in Backbone

Question

I need to call the initialize method of the parent class, from inside the inherited MyModel-class, instead of completely overwriting it as I am doi

Answer 1

here's a multi generation callSuper method, just add it to your extending class.

callSuper: function (methodName) {
    var previousSuperPrototype, fn, ret;

    if (this.currentSuperPrototype) {
        previousSuperPrototype = this.currentSuperPrototype;
        // Up we go
        this.currentSuperPrototype = this.currentSuperPrototype.constructor.__super__;
    } else {
        // First level, just to to the parent
        this.currentSuperPrototype = this.constructor.__super__;
        previousSuperPrototype = null;
    }

    fn = this.currentSuperPrototype[methodName];

    ret = (arguments.length > 1) ? fn.apply(this, Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1)) : fn.call(this);

    this.currentSuperPrototype = previousSuperPrototype;

    return ret;
}