Making promise-based actions
Starting off with Q, perform actions that return promises. Let's say, make Node.js action http.get
as the promised action:
// using-promise.js var httpGet = function (opts) { var deferred = Q.defer(); http.get(opts, deferred.resolve); return deferred.promise; };
Later, you can use: httpGet(...).then(function (res) {...});
but you have to make sure that functions return promises. The first Q.defer()
returns a set of an empty promise and operations for it. The deferred.promise
is the empty promise which fixes a certain value:
// promise-resolve-then-flow.js var deferred = Q.defer(); deferred.promise.then(function (obj) { console.log(obj); }); deferred.resolve("Hello World");
This prints Hello World
to the console. In general, ...
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