Backbone.emulateJSON()

The Backbone.emulateJSON method is set to true to handle the requests encoded with application/json because the legacy web server cannot handle requests encoded as application/json.

Syntax:

Let's take an example.

See this example:

 <!DOCTYPE html>
   <head>
      <title>emulateJSON Example</title>
         <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.3.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
         <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.8.2/underscore-min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
         <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/backbone.js/1.1.2/backbone-min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
   </head>
   <body>
      <script type="text/javascript">
         Backbone.emulateJSON = true;
         Backbone.sync = function(method, model) {
            document.write(method + ": " + JSON.stringify(model));
            model.set('id', 1);   
         };
         var Boxer = new Backbone.Model({
            firstname:"Vijender",
            lastname:"Singh"
         });
        Boxer.save();
         Boxer.save({country: "india"});
      </script>
   </body>
</html>

Test it Now

Output:

Save the above code in emulatejson.html file and open this file in a new browser.