BACKBONE.CEREAL

Automatically serialize and deserialize any type of object in your backbone model attributes.

Using the initial attributes, whether they come from the defaults object or from the attributes argued at instantiation, Cereal.Model intellegently guesses how to serialize/deserialize any object/primative types in toJSON() and set() respectively.

Example Instantiations

class Actor extends Slouch.Model
  defaults:
    coach: new Actor()
    birthday: moment(0)
  deserializers: [
    test: (value) ->
      if moment(value).isValid() and _.isString(value)
        moment
  ]

model1 = new Actor()

Cereal.Model will serialize and de-serialize using its type infomation.

model1.set('coach', {color: 'gold', name: 'Carl', age: 56}) # Everything's cool.
model1.get('coach').get('name') # is 'Carl'
model1.toJSON().coach.name # also 'Carl'

now = moment()
model1.set('birthday', now.format())
model1.get('birthday').format() # is now.format()

Dependencies (Production)

• backbone.js (http://backbonejs.org)
• underscore.js (http://underscorejs.org)