[ckan-dev] recline model: is the jquery dep necessary?

[Rufus Pollock]

On 30 March 2012 16:15, James Casbon <casbon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 March 2012 16:06, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> On 30 March 2012 15:59, James Casbon <james.casbon at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> Just had a go at loading the recline model parts.  Now I want to load
>>> them in a non browser js environment (think web worker/node.js), but
>>> there seems to be a jquery dependency - which may be unnecessary.   If
>>> it is, it would help me to reuse the data code out of the browser if
>>> it was dropped.
>>>
>>> For example, the code in http://okfnlabs.org/recline/src/model.js is
>>> wrapped in :
>>>
>>>  (function($, my) {
>>>     ... all the code
>>>  }(jQuery, this.recline.Model));
>>>
>>> Can someone enlighten me as to what this does and whether it needs
>>> jquery to do it?
>>
>> I'm using jquery functionality a lot to find elements
>> ($('.xxx).find(...)) and for $.each / $.map (could move all of that to
>> underscore).
>>
>> How are you doing element selection without jquery?
>
> Do you mean DOM element selection? That shouldn't happen in model code, right?
>
> Yes, underscore has each/map/ etc http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/
>
> Actually I see now you use a jquery deferred in there.

You are right. Only use is deferred (plus possibly each/map which can
be removed for underscore).

Rufus