event-to-any-promise

Create a promise waiting for events to be resolve/reject. Uses any-promise to create the promise

Install

npm install --save events-to-any-promise

You must have any-promise 1.x in your dependencies.

Example

Using a promise to start Node Http Server:

'use strict';

const http = require('http');
const eventToAnyPromise = require('events-to-any-promise');

async function initHttpServer(config) {
  const server = http.createServer();
  server.listen(config);
  await eventToAnyPromise(server, 'listening');
  return server;
}


initHttpServer({ port: 80 })
  .then((server) => {
    console.log('Http server is listening on ', server.address());
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.log('Failed to start the server', err);
  });

Usage

Call events-to-any-promise to wait for a success event (this throws en error in case of error event):

const require('events-to-any-promise');
const someEventsEmitter = require('./someEventsEmitter');

async function doSomething() {
  await eventToAnyPromise(someEventsEmitter, 'sucess');
  // some stuff
}

When the success event returns a value:

const require('events-to-any-promise');
const someEventsEmitter = require('./someEventsEmitter');

async function doSomething() {
  const result = eventToAnyPromise(someEventsEmitter, 'sucess');
}

When the success event delivers multiples values, eventToAnyPromise returns an array:

const require('events-to-any-promise');
const someEventsEmitter = require('./someEventsEmitter');

async function doSomething() {
  const results = await eventToAnyPromise(someEventsEmitter, 'sucess');
  // results is an array
}

Be default, eventToAnyPromise uses 'error' as error event. To use another event as error event, simply pass it as 3rd parameters:

const require('events-to-any-promise');
const someEventsEmitter = require('./someEventsEmitter');

async function doSomething() {
  await eventToAnyPromise(someEventsEmitter, 'sucess', 'errorEvent');
  // some stuff
}

API

Returns a promise. The promise is resolve when sucessEvent is emitted and rejected when errorEvent is emitted.

eventToAnyPromise(emitter, successEvent, [errorEvent]) ==> Promise

emitter The events emitters object

successEvent The name of the success event

errorEvent The name of the error event. Optional, by default: 'error'.

Promise

The promise is build using any-promise, therefore it can be used with any Promise implementation.

Restrictions:

Requires Node 6.0.0 or upper.

License

MIT