Enhancement - kb.observableArray - as in ko.observableArray for Models with an Array (not a collection)

[joantune]

Hi!

I don't know if many people are on board with this as I am, but if you have a simple model that has an Array as an attribute, if you do
var something = kb.observable(model, "arrayProperty") you don't get the value of the array in something, only the full model.

How about having a kb.observableArray(model, "arrayProperty") any subsequent changes to the observable Array would trigger a set on the model, and the other way around.

[joantune]

My bad - I had a typo and was using ko.observable instead of kb.observable, actually a kb.observable is created (although it is not a ko.observableArray), anyway, I made that array into a collection following the advice here as I might need to change that (i.e. not only a read only array). Anywhoo, I don't know if transforming that into an observableArray will be so useful given the workarounds:

• creating a kb.observable;
• manning up and making it a Backbone.Collection

Anyway, if someone thinks is useful +1 it here

[kmalakoff]

We have been using BackboneORM, but in the past we used BackboneRelational to handle nested arrays. They will create kb.collectionObservables (which are ko.observableArrays). Or you can just use a collection as you did.

I'll close for now...