backbone-typescript-accessor-generator

Generates Backbone models with typed subclasses for using Backbone.js with TypeScript and its type system.

Getting Started

models are declared as YAML, such as

Todo:
  content: string[]
  done: optional bool
  person: A

A:
  name: readonly string

and generates code in the form of

class _Model extends Backbone.Model {
  get_member() : member_type { return this.get('member'); }
  set_member(val : member_type) : void { this.set('member', val); }
  fromJSON(json) : { ... }
}

• members declared optional do not raise an exception if missing from a json loaded in fromJSON.

• members declared readonly do not have set_member generated.

the type for each member is a typescript type and must not contain spaces

Do not use the _Model classes directly! Instead, you must subclass them. For a minimal model, this typically means

class Model extends _Model {}

but usually you'll want to add methods.

Grunt plugin

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-backbone-typescript-accessor-generator --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-backbone-typescript-accessor-generator');

The "backbone_typescript_accessor_generator" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named backbone_typescript_accessor_generator to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  backbone_typescript_accessor_generator: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
})

Usage Examples

backbone_typescript_accessor_generator: {
  dynamic_mappings: {
    files: [
      {
        expand: true,
        cwd: 'ts/',
        src: '*.models.yml',
        dest: 'ts/',
        ext: '-models.ts'
      }
    ]
  }
}

Release History

(Nothing yet)

Authors

Jared Pochtar

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Copyright 2013 Palantir Technologies

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.