Day: December 21, 2011

Newbie backbone question:

Context: Building a shopping list with backbone

I have a model class called with name, description and tags (array) properties. I would like to create two views based on this model or this model’s collection.

First view will display all items like this:

<ul>
<li><h3>Item 1 Name</h3>
<p>Item 1 Description</p>
<p>Tag1, Tag2 ,Tag3</p>
</li>
.......
</ul>

Second view will display a list of tags and count of tagged items like this:

<ul>
<li>Tag1<span>{count of items tagged with tag1}</span></li>
<li>Tag2<span>{count of items tagged with tag2}</span></li>
<li>Tag3<span>{count of items tagged with tag3}</span></li>
</ul>

I built the model, collection and view to support the first view. I would like to know the right way to use the existing model (or create a new model?) to build the second view.

Thanks in advance…

existing Item model and collection (ripped from Todo.js example)

window.Item = Backbone.Model.extend({
// Default attributes for a todo item.
defaults: function() {
return {
order: Items.nextOrder()
};
}
});


window.ItemList = Backbone.Collection.extend({

model: Item,

localStorage: new Store("items"),

nextOrder: function() {
  if (!this.length) return 1;
  return this.last().get('order') + 1;
},

comparator: function(item) {
  return item.get('order');
}

});

UPDATE: Even though the overriding the parse() method works when displaying Tag names with item count, I was unable to refresh tag name/item count list after adding a new item. This may be due to the fact that the views are rendering from different collections. I will try extending the ItemList collection and overriding the parse() method. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer

Paul Yoder from Backbone.js google group provided the solution. You can view it here

I have object literal what I consider as base object:

var obj = {
   key1   : 'value1',
   key2   : 'value2'
}

and would like to use this object and pass it to function with extention like

myFunction( obj + { key3 : 'value3' } );

// param became:
{
   key1   : 'value1',
   key2   : 'value2',
   key3   : 'value3'
}

or

myFunction( obj + { key2 : 'new value2' } );

// param became:
{
   key1   : 'value1',
   key2   : 'new value2'
}

+ operator is not correct for it. How I can do it? Is it a way ?

EDIT: Do you want to permanently alter obj? – No, I would like to able to reuse it for next call as base.

Answer

If you’re okay with altering obj, just change it before you pass it:

var obj = { /* stuff */ };

obj.key3 = 'value3';
myFunction(obj);

Do you want to permanently alter obj? – No, I would like to able to reuse it for next call as base.

Okay, so you need to make a copy of obj, and alter the copy — either before you call myFunction:

var obj = { /* stuff */ };
var extension = {key3: 'value3'};

myFunction($.extend({}, obj, extension));

or pass obj and the “extension” to myFunction:

var obj = { /* stuff */ };
var extension = {key3: 'value3'};

myFunction(obj, extension);

and have myFunction do the work:

function myFunction(base, ext)
{
    if (typeof base === 'object' && typeof ext === 'object')
    {
        base = $.extend({}, base, ext);
    }

    // rest of the function logic here
}

If you’re already (or don’t mind) using jQuery, $.extend() will be your best friend for the task.

Can I retrieve currently running test name like in JUnit (using getName() or rules)?

@Test
public void fooBar(){
     System.out.println(magic()); //should print "fooBar"
}

P.S. I don’t want use some self-written tool based on stack traces.

Answer

According the to TestNG documentation at: http://testng.org/doc/documentation-main.html you can implement listeners that might be able to help you with your problem.

Look at section 5.16 TestNG Listeners, and in particular the IInvokedMethodListener (javadoc: http://testng.org/javadocs/org/testng/IInvokedMethodListener.html). You can hook into the beforeInvocation to grab the method name, hold onto it somewhere, and then use it in your test. You could of course, just use the the details immediately in your listener implementation.

After the user clicks on….”log in” button, and other events, I made a loading script -to let users know they have to wait (Until ajax replies back).

How can I DISABLE any MOUSE CLICKS (right click, left click, double click, middle click, x click), on div id="doc"?
I want to add that code to loading.js

HTML

<html>
...
<body>
<div id="doc">
   <div id="content">
   ...
   <input type="button" value="Login" id="login" />
   ...
   </div id="content">
</div id="doc">
</body>
</html>

loading.js

function load_bar(x)
{
    if (x==0)
    {
    $(document.body).css( {"cursor": "default"} );
    $("body").css( {"cursor": "default"} );
    $("#loading").css("visibility", "hidden"); //modal window
//  $("#doc").....ENABLE all clicks (left/right/etc)
    }

    else if (x==1)
    {
    $(document.body).css( {"cursor": "wait"} );
    $("body").css( {"cursor": "wait"} );
    $("#loading").css( {"visibility": "visible"} ); //modal window
//  $("#doc").....DISABLE all clicks (left/right/etc)
    }

    else
    {
    return alert("Wrong argument!");
    }
}

jQuery

$(document).ready(function()
{
//AJAX
$("#login").click(function()
{
    load_bar(1); //DISABLE clicks and show load_bar
    $(":input").attr("disabled", true);


$.post( 
    ...
    function(data)
    {
    ...
    load_bar(0); //ENABLE clicks and hide load_bar
    ...
    } //END: if:else
}); //END:$.post
    ...
}); //END:ajax
}); //END:jQuery

Answer

You can overlay a big, semi-transparent <div> that takes all the clicks. Just append a new <div> to <body> with this style:

.overlay {
    background-color: rgba(1, 1, 1, 0.7);
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    position: fixed;
    right: 0;
    top: 0;
}

Is there a way to check whether the div is entirely visible to the user? I mean the scroll bar is positioned so that the entire div fits inside the viewport.

Answer

This is exactly what this was created for:
http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/viewport