Using 'url' as a property name in a model

[brianberlin]

When you create a model and try to use url in the list of props, an error is thrown when you try to save it.

Error: A "url" property or function must be specified

If you set the url it of coarse changes the url in which the model is saved.

model.save({ url: 'http://google.com' });
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://google.com/.

Since url is a common field name used in databases I expected to be able to use it in an ampersand model.

Here is a simplified example: http://requirebin.com/?gist=2372c9322f4d2f5d5c3a

[v4l3nt1n]

We are having the same issue around here, our object from the api contains an 'url' property.

The issue is that if we use the 'url' inside the props definition of the model, then the url() function is never defined, so when you do fetch(), save(), etc, throws 'Error: A "url" property or function must be specified'.
And if you call the function myModel.url() from the console you get the undefined is not a function error.
Unfortunately its not a option for us to change the model's properties names, we already have our REST API working.

Thanks!

[brianberlin]

This might help getting data into your ampersand models.
http://ampersandjs.com/docs#ampersand-state-parse

[v4l3nt1n]

Thanks brian, that should work as a workaround!

[webmasterkai]

Related/duplicate issue AmpersandJS/ampersand-collection-rest-mixin#3

[HenrikJoreteg]

Hi folks! Sorry this has been sitting so long. Closing as a dupe of AmpersandJS/ampersand-collection-rest-mixin#3

Workaround is to either re-name it in using parse and serialize.