guy

A Guy of Many Trades

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• Structure
• Modules
  • guy.props: Define Properties
  • guy.async: Asynchronous Helpers
  • guy.nowait: De-Asyncify JS Async Functions
• guy.cfg: Instance Configuration Helper
  • Usage Examples
    • Most Minimal (Bordering Useless)
    • More Typical
• guy.lft: Freezing Objects
• To Do

Structure

• Only Peer-Dependencies (except cnd, intertype)
• Sub-libraries accessible as guy.${library_name}
• Most sub-libraries implemented using guy.props.def_oneoff(), therefore dependencies (which are declared peer dependencies) will only be require()d when needed.

Modules

guy.props: Define Properties

• guy.props.def: ( target, name, cfg ) -> is just another name for Object.defineProperty().

• guy.props.def_oneoff: ()

guy.async: Asynchronous Helpers

• guy.async.defer: ( f ) ->—equivalent to setImmediate f

• guy.async.after: ( dts, f ) ->—equivalent to setTimeout f, dts * 1000. Observe that Δt must be given in seconds (not milliseconds).

• guy.async.sleep: ( dts ) ->—await sleep 1 will resume after one second.

guy.nowait: De-Asyncify JS Async Functions

Peer Dependencies: abbr/deasync

• guy.nowait.for_callbackable: ( fn_with_callback ) ->—given an asynchronous function afc that accepts a NodeJS-style callback (as in afc v1, v2, ..., ( error, result ) -> ...), returns a synchronous function sf that can be used without a callback (as in result = sf v1, v2, ...).

• guy.nowait.for_awaitable: ( fn_with_promise ) ->—given an asynchronous function afp that can be used with await (as in result = await afp v1, v2, ...) returns a synchronous function f that can be used without await (as in result = sf v1, v2, ...).

guy.cfg: Instance Configuration Helper

• guy.cfg.configure_with_types: ( self, cfg = null, types = null ) => ...—Given a class instance self, an optional cfg object and an optional Intertype-like types instance,

  • set clasz to self.constructor for conciseness;
  • derive effective cfg from defaults (where clasz.C.defaults.constructor_cfg is set) and argument cfg;
  • make cfg a frozen instance property.
  • Procure types where not given and
  • make it a non-enumerable instance property.
  • Now call class method clasz.declare_types() with self;
  • in declare_types(), clients are encouraged to declare type constructor_cfg and validate self.cfg;
  • further, other types may be declared as appropriate; since those types have access to self.cfg, their definition may depend on those parameters.
  • The return value of clasz.declare_types() is discarded; clients that want to provide their own must pass it as third argument to configure_with_types().
  • It is always possible to declare or import types on the client's module level and pass in that object to configure_with_types(); this will avoid (most of) the overhead of per-instance computations and use the same types object for all instances (which should be good enough for most cases).
  • One thing to avoid though is to declare types on the module level, then pass that types object to configure_with_types() to add custom types at instantiation time. Doing so would share the same types object between instances and modify it for each new instance, which is almost never what you want. Either declare one constant types object for all instances or else build a new bespoke types object for each instance from scratch.

Usage Examples

Most Minimal (Bordering Useless)

It is allowable to call configure_with_types() with an instance of whatever class. guy.cfg.configure_with_types() will look for properties clasz.C.defaults, clasz.declare_types() (and a types object as third argument to configure_with_types()) and provide defaults where missing:

class Ex
  constructor: ( cfg ) ->
    guy.cfg.configure_with_types @, cfg
#.........................................................................................................
ex1 = new Ex()
ex2 = new Ex { foo: 42, }
#.........................................................................................................
log ex1                         # Ex { cfg: {} }
log ex1.cfg                     # {}
log ex2                         # Ex { cfg: { foo: 42 } }
log ex2.cfg                     # { foo: 42 }
log ex1.types is ex2.types      # false
log type_of ex1.types.validate  # function

More Typical

class Ex

  @C: guy.lft.freeze
    foo:      'foo-constant'
    bar:      'bar-constant'
    defaults:
      constructor_cfg:
        foo:      'foo-default'
        bar:      'bar-default'

  @declare_types: ( self ) ->
    self.types.declare 'constructor_cfg', tests:
      "@isa.object x":                    ( x ) -> @isa.object x
      "x.foo in [ 'foo-default', 42, ]":  ( x ) -> x.foo in [ 'foo-default', 42, ]
      "x.bar is 'bar-default'":           ( x ) -> x.bar is 'bar-default'
    self.types.validate.constructor_cfg self.cfg
    return null

  constructor: ( cfg ) ->
    guy.cfg.configure_with_types @, cfg
    return undefined

#.......................................................................................................
ex = new Ex { foo: 42, }
log ex                          # Ex { cfg: { foo: 42, bar: 'bar-default' } }
log ex.cfg                      # { foo: 42, bar: 'bar-default' }
log ex.constructor.C            # { foo: 'foo-constant', bar: 'bar-constant', defaults: { constructor_cfg: { foo: 'foo-default', bar: 'bar-default' } } }
log ex.constructor.C?.defaults  # { constructor_cfg: { foo: 'foo-default', bar: 'bar-default' } }

guy.lft: Freezing Objects

guy.left.freeze() and guy.lft.lets() provide access to the epynomous methods in letsfreezethat. freeze() is basically Object.freeze() for nested objects, while d = lets d, ( d ) -> mutate d provides a handy way to mutate and re-assign a copy of a frozen object. See the documentation for details.

To Do

• [–] adopt icql-dba/errors#Dba_error:

  class @Dba_error extends Error
    constructor: ( ref, message ) ->
      super()
      @message  = "#{ref} (#{@constructor.name}) #{message}"
      @ref      = ref
      return undefined
  

  • [–] might want to integrate code from https://github.com/creemama/utiljs/blob/master/packages/utiljs-errors/lib/RethrownError.js to enable re-throwing of errors w/out losing stack trace info.
  • also see https://github.com/joyent/node-verror

• [–] while test @[ "nowait with async steampipes" ] works in isolation, running the test suite hangs indefinitely.