StatefulModel

[sebpiq]

With intermediary states like "destroying", "saving", and so on ...

[donaldr]

I second having a StatefulModel class.

[sebpiq]

Never really had the need for that myself ... so any idea what functionalities it should offer that vanilla StateMachine doesn't already have?

[donaldr]

It would mostly be syntactic sugar so that I don't have to manually mixin the state machine on a Backbone model object. There isn't much utility other than that.

I just cribbed the shell of Backbone.StatefulView and do this:

Backbone.StatefulModel = (function(Backbone, _) {

  var StatefulModel = function(options) {
    this.startStateMachine(options);
    Backbone.Model.prototype.constructor.apply(this, arguments);
  }

  _.extend(StatefulModel.prototype, Backbone.Model.prototype, Backbone.StateMachine);

  StatefulModel.extend = Backbone.Model.extend;

  return StatefulModel;

}(Backbone, _));

[sebpiq]

Ok ... I'll add that now. If by using it you find that there should be some extra functionality, please suggest it here!

[sebpiq]

Ok done 3c74c63