can-queues

can-queues

Exports an object with the following:

{
	Queue,         // The Queue type constructor
	PriorityQueue, // The PriorityQueue type constructor
	notifyQueue,   // A Queue used to tell objects that
	               //    derive a value that they should be updated.
	deriveQueue,   // A PriorityQueue used update values.
	domUIQueue,    // A Queue used for updating the DOM or other UI after
	               //    state has settled, but before user tasks
	mutateQueue,   // A Queue used to register tasks that might
	               //    update other values.
	batch: {
		start,     // A function used to prevent the automatic flushing
		           //    of the NOTIFY_QUEUE.
		stop       // A function used to begin flushing the NOTIFY_QUEUE.
	},

	enqueueByQueue // A helper function used to queue a bunch of tasks.

	stack,

	logStack
}

Use

If you want to implement an observable that complies with can-reflect, and lets people listen to events with .on, you'll want the following:

var canSymbol = require("can-symbol");
var queues = require("can-queues");

var observable = {
	_cid: 123142123123,
	value: undefined,
	handlers: {
		notify: [], mutate: []
	},
	[canSymbol.getKeyValue('can.onValue')]: function(handler, queueName) {
		// save handlers by their queue
		this.handlers[queueName].push(handler);
	},
	on: function(handler) {
		// these handlers should always run last because they might mutate
		this.handlers.mutate.push(handler);
	},
	[canSymbol.getKeyValue('can.setKeyValue')]: function(newValue) {
		var args = [newValue, this.value]
		this.value = newValue;
		// start a batch so we don't .flush() the NOTIFY_QUEUE until everything has been added
		queues.batch.start();
		this.handlers.notify.forEach((handler) => {
			queues.notifyQueue.enqueue(handler, this, args, {log: [handler.name+" by "+this._cid]});
		})
		this.handlers.mutate.forEach((handler) => {
			queues.mutateQueue.enqueue(handler, this, args, {log: [handler.name+" by "+this._cid]});
		})
		queues.batch.stop();
	}
}

API

new Queue(name, [callbacks])

Creates a queue instance.

• name - the name of the queue used for logging.
• callbacks - an object of optional callbacks like {onFirstTask: fn(), onComplete: fn()} where:
  • onFirstTask - is called when the first task is added to an empty queue
  • onComplete - is called when the queue is empty.

queue.enqueue(fn, context, args, meta)

Enqueues the fn function to be called with context as this and args as its arguments.

// console.logs "say hi"
queue.enqueue(console.log, console, ["say hi"], {});
queue.flush();

• meta - An object used to give additional information. Current properties that might be used:
  • log - An array of values that will be added to this task's debug output. (You'll often want [fn.name])

queue.flush()

Runs all tasks in the queue.

new PriorityQueue(name, [callbacks])

A PriorityQueue works just like a normal queue. Except:

• PriorityQueues only allows one instance of a given fn to be enqueued at one time.
• PriorityQueues run tasks in order of their meta.priority.

batch.start()

batch.stop()

Todo

• - batch numbers (basically once we did a mutate, but a new notify happened -> increment batchNum)
• Implement priority, the ability to remove,
  • and the number of items?
• A callback to know when the queue has ended.