OK, problem solved.
pt., 11 sty 2019 o 21:18 . <magicznykrag(a)gmail.com> napisał(a):
What interesting: if I define .then just as:
.then(alert("in .then"));
then it works fine. But if i use the function() inside or the notation
you've provided:
.then(output => {
alert(output);
});
then system never reaches the .then. What I'm doing wrong?
pt., 11 sty 2019 o 20:44 . <magicznykrag(a)gmail.com> napisał(a):
> Martin,
>
> Thank you very much for the answer! Unfortunately I'm still stuck :-(
> Please take a look at the following code and tell me why it's still
> asynchronous. It display properly messages: "testFunct" and then "end
of
> testFunct", but it never reach the .then or .done.
> Thank you in advance!
>
> function testFunc() {
> alert("testFunc");
> lic = cockpit.spawn([
> "/usr/share/cockpit/testSoftware/connectExternalSystem"], {
> directory: "/usr/share/cockpit/testSoftware",
> err: "message"
> })
> .then(function() {
> alert("in .then of testFunc. Error: "+message);
> })
> .done(function() {
> alert("in .done of testFunc. Error: "+message);
> });
> alert("end of testFunc");
> }
>
> czw., 10 sty 2019 o 09:02 Martin Pitt <martin(a)piware.de> napisał(a):
>
>> Hello Magik,
>>
>> . [2019-01-09 21:51 +0100]:
>> > I'm C programmer learning now Cockpit. My problem is as follows: for
>> some
>> > of the operation I must use external helper and I must wait for it
>> output.
>> > The cockpit.spawn() function returns the promise, which is non-blocking
>> > operation (as expected). How can I make it work as blocking one? Which
>> > mean: the rest of the code in the function should be done after
>> receiving
>> > full output of the cockpit.spawn (done() or fail())
>>
>> This is a common pitfal when coming from the world of synchronous
>> programming
>> languages (such as C or Python) and starting with asynchronous
>> JavaScript.
>> Daniel's await proposal can certainly help to make async code look like
>> it was
>> written in a sync style; but honestly, it's really best to let go of this
>> pattern when writing JS.
>>
>> So instead of
>>
>> output = cockpit.spawn(..).make_this_magically_sync();
>> followup_action(output);
>>
>> actually use JavaScript promises as they are intended:
>>
>> cockpit.spawn(..)
>> .then(output => {
>> followup_action(output);
>> })
>> .catch(err => {
>> console.error(err);
>> });
>>
>> i. e. organize the stuff that depends on the result into promise
>> handlers.
>>
>> Martin
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