Gather

Fire a callback when other async tasks are complete. For Browserify.

Installation

$ npm install gm-gather

API

new Gather()

var Gather = require('gm-gather');
var gathering = new Gather();

Create a new instance of gather.

gathering.task( callback )

// create a task for the gathering to run. call 
// done if the task completes successfully, call
// error if the task fails.

gathering.task(function (done, error){
	
	ajax.load(uri, function(err, data){

		if (!err){
			processData(data);
			done();
		} else {
			error();
		}

	})

});

Create a new task. When tasks are called, they are passed done and error as arguments. These are both functions. Call done when the task has completed successfully. Call error when the task has failed. You can pass details of the error to error.

gathering.run( callback [, timeout] )

gathering.run(function (err){
	
	if (!err){
		// Yay, all my tasks were successful..
	}

}, 3000);

Run all the tasks asychronously, calling this callback when they're all complete. The callback receieves an array of errors passed to error by tasks.

Optionally you set a time limit with timeout.

gathering.update( callback )

You can, if you desire, set a callback to fire every time on of the task completes. This callback is passed the percentage complete from 0 to 100. This is intended to be used for progress bars, etc.

gathering.reset()

Reset the gathering so that it can be reused.

Example

Create a new Gathering:

var sequence = new Gather;

Add some tasks. Tasks tell Gather that they're done by calling either done() or error()

sequence
	.task(function(done, error){	
		// task callbacks are passed two functions, 'done' and 'error'
		doSomeAsyncThing(function(err){
			if(!err){
			    // this task has completed successfully. let's call 'done'
				done();
			}else{
				error(err);
			}
		})
	})
	.task(function(done, error){	
		doADifferentAsyncThing(function(err){
			if(!err){
				done();
			}else{
				// uh oh, this task has failed! Let's pass the error on.
				error(err);
			}
		})
	})
	.task(function(done, error){	
		alsoDoThisAsyncThing(function(err){
			if(!err){
				done();
			}else{
				error(err);
			}
		})
	});

Run all the tasks, calling a callback when they're all finished, one way or another.

sequence.run(function(err){
	// this callback is passed an array of all the errors generated.
	if(!err){
		// Hurray! No errors! All the tasks completed successfully!
	} else {
		// Oh no, a number of tasks failed. err will be an array of all the errors collected.
	}
})

License

MIT