node.js callback tools

Tools for simplifying node.js callback style programming.

errh(func, cb)

Returns function(err, result) that calls cb(err) if err != null and else calls func(result, cb).

Simplifies this case:

function (cb) {
    someAsyncCall(function (err, result) {
        if (err != null) {
            cb(err);
        }
        else {
            cb(null, doSomethingWithResult(result));
        } // too many lines of code
    });
};

to this one:

var errh = require('ncbt').errh;
 
function (cb) {
    someAsyncCall(errh(function (result, cb) {
        cb(null, doSomethingWithResult(result)); // much nicer
    }, cb);
};

errh.noResult(cb)

Returns function(err) that calls cb(err) shrinking any other arguments.

Useful for getting rid of insert or update results when querying db.

errh.nullResult(cb)

Like errh.noResult(cb), but calls cb(err, null).

License

MIT