chained-emitter

ChainedEventEmitter

ChainedEventEmitter is a an implementation of the EventEmitter found in Node.js, based on EventEmitter2, but adding the ability to return a promise in an event handler, so that the next handler waits for the previous to finish before firing. As well, emit() returns a promise that is fulfilled when all of the handlers have fired.

Features

• Everything from EventEmitter2
• Event chains

Differences (Non breaking, compatible with existing EventEmitter, EventEmitter2)

• The constructor takes a configuration object.

    var ChainedEmitter = reuire('ChainedEmitter').EventEmitter;
    var server = new ChainedEmitter({
      parallel: true, // fire second handler before the first resolves, defaults to false
    });

• Returning a promise

    var bb = require('bluebird')
    server.on('foo.*', function(value1, value2) {
      return bb.defer().promise
    });

API

emitter.addListener(event, listener)

emitter.on(event, listener)

Adds a listener to the end of the listeners array for the specified event. If the listener returns a bluebird promise, the promise returned by emit() will not resolve until the returned promise resolves. If the parallel configuration is false, the next handler will also wait to fire before the returned promise resolves. If you return anything but a promise (including undefined or null), the next action will happen immediately.

    server.on('data', function(value1, value2, value3 /* accepts any number of expected values... */) {
      var me = bb.defer();
      return me.promise; // wait for me!
    });

    server.on('data', function(value) {
      return; // don't wait!
    });

Licence

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 hij1nx http://www.twitter.com/hij1nx
Copyright (c) 2013 hildjj http://www.twitter.com/hildjj

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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