polling-to-event

node-polling-to-event

Receive events with EventEmitter from a polling function ran on an interval

Installation

$ npm install polling-to-event

Usage

var pollingtoevent = require("polling-to-event");

var emitter = pollingtoevent(function(done) {
  // your async stuff
  // ....
  done(null, arg1, arg2, ..., argN);
});

emitter.on("interval", function(data) {
  console.log(data);
});

emitter.on("err", function(err) {
  console.log(err);
});    

Example

var pollingtoevent = require("polling-to-event"),
  request = require("request");

var url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mozilla/contribute.json/master/schema.json";

emitter = pollingtoevent(function(done) {
  request.get(url, function(err, req, data) {
    done(err, data);
  });
});

emitter.on("interval", function(data) {
  console.log("Event emitted at %s, with data %j", Date.now(), data);
});

emitter.on("error", function(err, data) {
  console.log("Emitter errored: %s. with data %j", err, data);
});

API

pollingtoevent(pollingfunction, options)

It returns a NodeJS EventEmitter that emits the polled data on an interval.

Arguments

• pollingfunction(done) - The function you want to be called at an interval. When called, this function will receive a done parameter as its last argument.
  • done(error, arg1, arg2, ... argN) - You must call done() inside your function when your function finish its work.
    • error - Call done() with null as its first argument if there was no error. Call it with a standard nodejs Error() instance as first argument if you wish the emitter to emit an error event..
    • arg1, arg2, ... argN - The data fetched by your polling function. You pass it to done() in order to be emitted by the emitter. Any number of arguments will do.
• options - {Object}
  • interval - Interval in milliseconds. Default: 1000.
  • eventName - The event name to emit on each successful call to done() as second argument. Default: "interval".

Returns - Returns an events.EventEmitter instance.

Events

• interval - Emitted when an interval has completed and the done() function was called with no errors. You can also customize this event's name using the option eventName. Arguments: By listening to this event, you get on the listener the arguments passed by you to done() after the first argument.

• error - Emitted when done() was called with an error. It emits the data polled by your polling function. Arguments. A NodeJS error object.

TODO

• Add a default behaviour to poll URLs via a GET request if an URL string is passed as argument instead of a function.

##License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 osk <[e-mail]>

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