series

0.3.3 • Public • Published

Series

Compose a series of chainable async methods. Supports callbacks AND promises.

Supports Node and Browserify

Install

npm install series --save

Usage

var Series = require('series');
var series = Series();
var async = require('async'); // <~~ simply for usage example
 
// Add methods to our series sequence
series.add('map', function (items, iterator, next) {
  async.map(items, iterator, next);
});
 
series.add('sortBy', function (items, iterator, next) {
  async.sortBy(items, iterator, next);
});
 
series.add('filter', function (items, iterator, next) {
  var self = this;
  var error;
  
  async.filter(items, function (item, callback) {
    iterator(item, function (err, matched) {
      if (err) {
        error = err;
        return;
      }
      
      callback(matched);
    });
  }, function (filteredItems) {
    next(error, filteredItems);
  });
});
 
// Use our series
var list = [
  {
    name: 'John',
    age: 25
  },
  {
    name: 'Jane',
    age: 20
  }
];
 
series(list)
  .sortBy(function (item, next) {
    next(null, item.age);
  })
  .map(function (item, next) {
    next(null, item.age);
  }, function (err, items) {
    // Support for callbacks
  })
  .then(function (items) {
    // items now equals: [20, 25]
  }, function (err) {
    // oops, an error may have occured
  });

series

The instance value returned from calling Series() is both a function and an object. The object is the instance and the function returns the series chain.

series() supports the following as initial values to start the series:

  • Primitive - strings, numbers, etc.
  • Array - an array of primitives or objects
  • Function - a function that is passed a next callback that must be called with the following: next(err, value). The value passed as the second argument becomes the initial value of the series.
  • Promise - a Promises/A+ compliant value

For example:

Primitive

var Series = require('series');
var series = Series();
 
var someValue = 'my value';
series(someValue);

Array

var Series = require('series');
var series = Series();
 
var someValue = [1,2,3,4,5];
series(someValue);

Function

var Series = require('series');
var series = Series();
 
series(function (next) {
  var someValue = 'my value';
  next(null, someValue);
});

Promise

var Series = require('series');
var Promise = require('promise'); // <~~ npm install promise 
var series = Series();
 
var promise = new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
  // Some logic
});
 
series(promise);

instance methods

These methods are available on the series variable.

add(methodName, methodTask)

Composes a chainable method on the series. The method is added for all instances of that particular series.

methodName

A string that will be used as the method name

methodTask

A callback function that is passed the following parameters

  • items - any value that you would like passed to the first method in the series
  • iterator - the method called on the value from the previous method that performs some sort of user defined operation
  • next - the callback once all items in the list or collection have been processed.

For Example:

var Series = require('series');
var series = Series();
 
// Add methods to our series sequence
series.add('map', function (items, iterator, next) {
  iterator(items, function (err, processItems) {
    next(err, processItems);
  });
});

series sequence methods

These methods are available on the value returned from calling series(someValue)

The methods available vary according to which methods have been added to the series. In the usage example above, we've added map, sortBy, and filter. These methods would be available on the series as well as:

then(successCallback, errorCallback)

Each series sequence returns a promise. Refer to the Promises/A+ spec for more details.

successCallback

This is called once all chained methods have processed the initial value, unless an error has occurred.

errorCallback

This is called if an error occurs anywhere when processing the initial value in any of the chainable methods. If an error occurs, all processing stops.

For Example:

var Series = require('series');
var series = Series();
 
var someValue = 'my value';
series(someValue)
  .someChainableMethod(function (value, next) {
    next(null, value + 's');
  })
  .then(function (processedValue) {
    // processedValue == my values
  });

Callbacks

Each method in the series can take a callback if you'd rather not use promises. Each callback will be called at the completion of each method.

For Example:

var Series = require('series');
var series = Series();
 
series(someValue)
  .someChainableMethod(function (value, next) {
    next(null, value + 's');
  }, function (err, arg1) {
    // arg1 == value + 's'
  })
  .someOtherMethod(function (value, next) {
    next(null);
  }, function (err) {
    // err == null
  })

Run Tests

npm install
npm test

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