How to get route url params in a view?

Question

I use Backbone.js and Chaplin.js on CoffeeScript. I have a challenge. How to get url params in a routed view?

routes.coffee:

define ->     
  'use strict'
  (match) ->  
    match "account/albums/:page", "accounts#albums"


define [                                                      
  'chaplin'                                                   
  'collections/albums'                                        
  'views/form_view'                                           
  'views/inline/album'                                        
  'text!template/account/_form_image.html'                    
  'text!template/account/list_albums.html'                    
], (chaplin,                                                  
  Albums,                                                   
  FormView,                                                 
  AlbumView,                                                
  formTemplate,                                             
  template                                                  
) ->                                                          
  'use strict'                                                

  class AccountAlbums extends chaplin.CollectionView          
    collection: new Albums                                    
    itemView: AlbumView                                       
    template: template                                        
    containerMethod: 'html'                                   
    listSelector: '[data-placeholder=albums-tile]'            

    # TODO: understand how to get router arguments in the view
    initialize: (options) ->                                  
      super                                                   
      @on 'addedToDOM', => @collection.fetch()                
      # Need to something like this.                          
      # But I do not know how to get it.                      
      #@collection.fetch                                      
      #  data:                                                
      #    page: page                                         

Answer 1

This is an old question, but for completeness here's an answer:

Your route is sending the data to the albums method inside a controller (accounts) which isn't shown in your code above. That method should look something like this:

  albums: (params, route, options) ->
    @collection = new Albums()
    @view = new AccountAlbums collection: @collection
    @collection.fetch
      data:
        page: params.page

The view shouldn't bother retrieving the data, it's the controller's job to tell the collection to get the data. Then the view automagically renders it.