Resolve returned xhr(promise) with model.

[tomalec]

Hi,

I have faced the need to use Promises with Backbone methods, or Backbone.sync in general.
I would really like to use model, as first argument of fulfill function.

I read problems related to #1774, #2489, and #2345.
I come with a simple idea: instead of trying to introduce Promises into entire Backbone flow, we can tune those given by jQuery (if any).

Simply, if we have Promise available, we will use it to resolve with model, otherwise we will return xhr as we did before.

Thanks to that, old non-promise apps and flows will still work, but we could use jQuery.Deferreds, Q, etc. to do what we want.

function doSmthWithModel( model ){
    console.log(model);
    //..
}
//jQuery.Deferred
model.save().then( doSmthWithModel );

to work around false returned by Model#save

$.when( model.save() ).then( doSmthWithModel )

or use Q, which also solves false issue

Q( model.save() ).then( doSmthWithModel )

if we need a rejection even nicer ( model.save() || Q.reject(model))

So it will be tiny step towards Promises in Backbone.

I have also made it work for jQuery>1.6 with .pipe if we need @50c8cf49ac62ef8fa9a0a4169fa6f3dba89bd7d4.

[jashkenas]

This is a bit too piecemeal of an approach to be merged as-is ... although thoughts on having nicer promise workflows are certainly welcome.

It would also break a lot of apps.