Marionette itemViewEvents; event dispatching and binding

Question

I'm having some trouble understanding how event dispatching and binding to events between children parents work in the awesomeness that is Marionette.

Is it correct that I can trigger a custom event from an itemView like this:

var Item = Marionette.ItemView.extend({
    events: {
      "click .foo": "do:something"
    }
});

var itemCollection = Marionette.CollectionView.extend({
    itemView: item,
    initialize: function () {
        this.on("itemview:do:something", this.onSomething, this);
    }
}};

Is there some shortcut to binding to the itemView events like I would DOM events:

 var itemCollection = Marionette.CollectionView.extend({
    itemView: item,
    itemviewevents: {
        "itemview:do:something": "onSomething"
    }
}};

Thanks :).

Heartily

Answer 1

You're confusing triggers and events. Your code should be

var Item = Marionette.ItemView.extend({
    triggers: {
      "click .foo": "do:something"
    }
});

Use the events hash to have a function called when an event takes place, use the triggers hash to have a trigger executed.

Longlived

But is there any reason it would be a bad idea if it was possible to listen for the events with a configuration hash? ie. itemviewEvents: {...} ? – Heartily

You should update your initial post to remove your "update", as it may confuse users unfamiliar with Marionette and triggers if they don't scroll down to the answer. – Laird

Are you by any chance referring to the OP's question? If not, I'm not sure I understand how you think I should change my answer. – Longlived

Remove the update thing. by request of Tyler Harden. – Heartily