As with any good solution, there needs to be a valid problem you’re trying to solve. In this case, I ran into a challenge at work and wanted to share the concepts of what I needed to accomplish in case anyone else has run into similar troubles.

I was assigned the task of integrating a new UI with a preexisting backend API, which is really not that big of a deal in and of itself. However, as I wanted to use BackboneJS as our client MVC framework and the API was by no means RESTful nor consistent, I quickly became aware that I would need to manually override the sync() method of nearly every one of my models in order to have things function properly. Again, in and of itself, this is not a problem, but working in an environment where maintenance and change are the rule, I wanted to figure out a way to extract the customization in such a way as to be extremely easy to manage.
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