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Chaining Promises with JQuery in Javascript
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// Prereq: underscore.js and jquery loaded | |
var p1 = $.Deferred(); | |
var p2 = $.Deferred(); | |
// We want something that chains promises, so something like... | |
//p1.done( | |
// function addNext() { | |
// p2.done( | |
// function addNext() { | |
// console.log('oh hai'); | |
// } | |
// ) | |
// } | |
//); | |
function chainPromise( promiseList, successCallback, failCallback ) { | |
var hasFailed = false; | |
// When all promises resolve, call successCallback(); | |
var resolver = _.reduce( | |
promiseList, | |
function iterator(memo, promise) { | |
return function addNext() { | |
if ( !hasFailed ) { | |
promise.done(memo); | |
} | |
}; | |
}, | |
successCallback | |
); | |
resolver(); | |
// If any promise fails, call failCallback, and only call it once(); | |
_.each( | |
promiseList, | |
function iterator(promise) { | |
promise.fail( | |
function onFail() { | |
if ( !hasFailed ) { | |
hasFailed = true; | |
failCallback(); | |
} | |
} | |
) | |
} | |
); | |
} | |
chainPromise( [p1, p2], | |
function() { console.log('oh hai'); }, | |
function() { console.log('oh noes'); } | |
); | |
console.log('loaded with promises'); | |
p1.resolve(); | |
console.log('almost there'); | |
p2.resolve(); | |
//console.log('rejected...'); | |
//p2.reject(); | |
//p1.reject(); |
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