Allow itemView, collectionView etc to be strings

[marionettejs]

Allow itemView, collectionView etc to be strings

[mxriverlynn]

eval is the devil! :)

how about specifying it as a function? I use that a lot when I have code that can't be evaluated immediately. It would look something like this:

Backbone.Marionette.CollectionView.extend({
  itemView: function(){
    return MyItemView;
  }
});

where MyItemView is defined in another file somewhere else.

This would be easy to implement and should work for you.

[ansman]

I know :(

The problem is how would you separate a function from a class?

[mxriverlynn]

... right... that's a very good question. I'll have to think about this some more.

[mxriverlynn]

Having thought about this for a bit, I'm going to have to say no to the request. There is a working solution that you've pointed out in another ticket (and that I'm currently using in several places as well): use the initialize function and set the collection / model from within that. I know this isn't a great solution, but at this point I can't see a better way to make this happen.

There's no way to tell if a function is meant to be a constructor function or just a regular function, so I can't do anything a long those lines.

There are too many security, performance and other practical issues with using eval, so I can't do anything along those lines either.

Closing this as "won't fix", unless someone can point out a way to make something other than eval work, easily.