Dynamic Views (client-side) and attach/fetchLazy

I've been trying to figure out how to do dynamic views while still retaining the way the collections are pulling data, etc. Normally, in backbone, I'd just do a collection.fetch and on('reset',this.render), but that doesn't seem to work.

I'm needing to load a popover with a detail list when I click on an item. I've figured out a way to do it, but I had to edit some of the core base View code and I wanted to see if I could get some ideas on why some things are as they are.

1) In fetchLazy in shared/base/view.js, what is the point of this line?

params[this.options.param_name] = this.options.param_value;

There doesn't seem to be a way to pass in params for fetchLazy. Is there a way to do this? I edited it to pass in params like this:

fetchLazy: function(params) {
  var  fetchSpec;
  if (params == null) {
    params = {};
  }
  params[this.options.param_name] = this.options.param_value;

The original code is this:

fetchLazy: function() {
  var  fetchSpec;
  params[this.options.param_name] = this.options.param_value;

2) Is view.js's attach method meant to be callable from outside code?

At least to get this to work, I added in:

    if (this.options.params) {
      this.fetchLazy(this.options.params);
    } else {
      this.fetchLazy();
    }

so that I could call it from the outside and pass in params.

Then, I'm able to load the view by doing this:

    var params = {};
    params.access_token = sessionData.access_token;
    params.masterItem_id = 2;
    var DetailListView = BaseView.getView('details/list');
    var view = new DetailListView({
        app: this.app,
        lazy: true,
        params: params,
        collection_name: ‘DetailsCollectionName'
    });
    view.attach('div.test', this);

Is there a better or easier way? If not, then, can you comment on this approach and if it's ok, I can submit a pull request?

rendrjs / rendr

Dynamic Views (client-side) and attach/fetchLazy #367