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tflow

v0.4.1

Published

Async flow control similar to async.waterflow but with own advantages.

Downloads

18

Readme

tflow - t(ask)flow.

Runs an array of functions in series, each passing their results to the next in the array. However, if any of the functions pass an error to the callback, the next function is not executed and the callback is immediately called with the error.

Does same thing as async-waterflow or async.waterflow but tasks use this as callback instead of last argument. It has several advantages:

  • All tasks use same this object that references current task flow, so you can use it as temporary storage of task results and exchange results between tasks.
  • You don't need to declare callback for each task and always use this instead.
  • You can use this.next and this.fail for better readibility and automaticaly wrapping of string errors to errors with stacktraces.
  • It's possible to log all application callback errors in single place.

Example of usage:


var tflow = require('tflow')

function makeGuid(data, done) {
  var guid;
  tflow([
    function() {
      if (data.addr && (data.host || data.user)) return this.fail('guid.make: addr and user&host are mutually exclusive.')
      if (!data.addr && !data.host) return this.fail('guid.make: addr or host are required.')
      if (!data.path) return this.fail('guid.make: path is required.')
      this.next()
    },
    function() {
      if (data.addr) guid = data.addr
      else if (data.user) guid = data.user + '@' + data.host
      else guid = data.host

      guid += '/' + data.path
      //ensure we can parse just made guid
      parse(guid, this)
    },
    function(parsed) {
      this.done(guid)
    },
  ], done)
}
        

TFlow can be used with ES6 arrow functions too. Such functions use lexical this and don't allow to change it in apply or call, so we need to save reference to the flow and use it instead this.

Same technique can be used with normal javascript functions as well if you prefer to reference flow using local variable instead of this.

Example:


var flow = tflow([
  () => flow.next('one'),
  (arg) => {
    expect(arg).to.equal('one');
    flow.next('first', 'second', 'third');
  },
  (a, b, c) => {
    expect([a, b, c]).to.deep.equal(['first', 'second', 'third']);
    flow.complete('done');
  }
], (err, arg) => {
  expect(err).to.equal(null);
  expect(arg).to.equal('done');
});