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async-args
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#async-args
A utility for use in conjunction with async or similar libraries to help with passing and storing arguments between asynchronous functions.
Inspiration comes from:
This utility aspires to facilitate the following goals:
The disadvantage to these goals, similar to a microservices architecture, is that it pushes complexity to the integration layer. This library is intended to help manage that complexity.
Think of async-args as a collection of factory functions which produce async functions to replace, select, or insert arguments. You can explore an interactive code example here.
The static library is returned from the require statement
AsyncArgs = require('async-args')
The following methods are available:
###AsyncArgs.constants([constant], [constant], ...)
Pass constants as arguments to the adjoining function. Arguments from the preceding function are omitted. This method is equivalent to async.constant.
async.waterfall([
AsyncArgs.constants('arg1'), // (next)
aFunctionTakingOneArg // (arg1, next)
], next)
###AsyncArgs.appendConstants([constant], [constant], ...)
Append constants to the arguments coming from the preceding function.
async.waterfall([
outputArg1, // (next)
AsyncArgs.appendConstants('arg2'), // (arg1, next)
aFunctionTakingTwoArgs // (arg1, arg2, next)
], next)
###AsyncArgs.prependConstants([constant], [constant], ...)
Prepend constants to the arguments coming from the preceding function
async.waterfall([
outputArg1, // (next)
AsyncArgs.prependConstants('arg2'), // (arg1, next)
aFunctionTakingTwoArgs // (arg2, arg1, next)
], next)
###AsyncArgs.select([bool], [bool], ...])
Select a subset of arguments coming from the preceding function
async.waterfall([
outputArg1Arg2Arg3, // (next)
AsyncArgs.select(false, false, true), // (arg1, arg2, arg3, next)
aFunctionTakingOneArg // (arg3, next)
], next)
An instance is returned by calling the static library, which allows the storing and retrieving of values from a context object.
var asyncArgs = AsyncArgs()
You can prepopulate the context object when the instance is first created:
var context = {
'key1': 'value1',
'key2': 'value2'
}
var asyncArgs = AsyncArgs(context)
This context object is updated in place (no copy is made), so if you want synchronous access to these values, follow this example to reference the context for later use.
The same static methods as above are available, along with the following methods unique to instances:
###asyncArgs.store([key1], [key2], ...)
Store selected arguments coming from the previous function to the context object. Arguments from the preceding function pass through.
async.waterfall([
outputArg1Arg2Arg3, // (next)
AsyncArgs.store('arg1', 'arg2', 'arg3'), // (arg1, arg2, arg3, next)
aFunctionTakingThreeArgs // (arg1, arg2, arg3, next)
], next)
###asyncArgs.values([key1], [key2], ...)
Pull specific values from the context object and pass as arguments to the adjoining function. Arguments from the preceding function are omitted.
async.waterfall([
outputArg1Arg2Arg3, // (next)
AsyncArgs.store('arg1', 'arg2', 'arg3'), // (arg1, arg2, arg3, next)
aFunctionTakingThreeArgsAndOutputArg4, // (arg1, arg2, arg3, next)
AsyncArgs.values('arg2'), // (arg4, next)
aFunctionTakingOneArg // (arg2, next)
], next)
###asyncArgs.appendValues([key1], [key2], ...)
Pull specific values from the context object and append to the arguments coming from the preceding function.
async.waterfall([
outputArg1Arg2Arg3, // (next)
AsyncArgs.store('arg1', 'arg2', 'arg3'), // (arg1, arg2, arg3, next)
aFunctionTakingThreeArgsAndOutputArg4, // (arg1, arg2, arg3, next)
AsyncArgs.appendValues('arg2'), // (arg4, next)
aFunctionTakingOneArg // (arg4, arg2, next)
], next)
###asyncArgs.prependValues([key1], [key2], ...)
Pull specific values from the context object and prepend to the arguments coming from the preceding function.
async.waterfall([
outputArg1Arg2Arg3, // (next)
AsyncArgs.store('arg1', 'arg2', 'arg3'), // (arg1, arg2, arg3, next)
aFunctionTakingThreeArgsAndOutputArg4, // (arg1, arg2, arg3, next)
AsyncArgs.prependValues('arg2'), // (arg4, next)
aFunctionTakingOneArg // (arg2, arg4, next)
], next)
FAQs
A utility for use in conjunction with async.
The npm package async-args receives a total of 33 weekly downloads. As such, async-args popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that async-args demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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