Hi i'm relatively new to JavaScript and i'm working on a winjs app project where i want to use the Bing image search data source example in my project to virtualize the datasource of a listview.
My problem is understanding how the asynchronous functions work together and how to implement an async xhr request within the existing one.
Currently i'm using a synchronous request but i would like to change that into a asynchronous one.
This is my data adapter:
(function () {
var xxxDataAdapter = WinJS.Class.define(
function (devkey, query, delay) {
this._minPageSize = 2;
this._maxPageSize = 5;
this._maxCount = 50;
this._devkey = devkey;
this._query = query;
this._delay = 0;
},
{
getCount: function () {
var that = this;
var requestStr = 'http://xxx/' + that._query;
return WinJS.xhr({ url: requestStr, type: "GET", /*user: "foo", password: that._devkey,*/ }).then(
function (request) {
var obj = JSON.parse(request.responseText);
if (typeof obj.error === "undefined") {
var count = obj.length;
if (count === 0) { console.log("The search returned 0 results.", "sample", "error"); }
return count;
} else {
console.log("Error fetching results from API", "sample", "error");
return 0;
}
},
function (request) {
if (request && request.name === "Canceled") {
return WinJS.Promise.wrapError(request);
} else {
if (request.status === 401) {
console.log(request.statusText, "sample", "error");
} else {
console.log("Error fetching data from the service. " + request.responseText, "sample", "error");
}
return 0;
}
});
},
itemsFromIndex: function (requestIndex, countBefore, countAfter)
{
var that = this;
if (requestIndex >= that._maxCount) {
return WinJS.Promise.wrapError(new WinJS.ErrorFromName(WinJS.UI.FetchError.doesNotExist));
}
var fetchSize, fetchIndex;
if (countBefore > countAfter) {
//Limit the overlap
countAfter = Math.min(countAfter, 0);
//Bound the request size based on the minimum and maximum sizes
var fetchBefore = Math.max(Math.min(countBefore, that._maxPageSize - (countAfter + 1)), that._minPageSize - (countAfter + 1));
fetchSize = fetchBefore + countAfter + 1;
fetchIndex = requestIndex - fetchBefore;
} else {
countBefore = Math.min(countBefore, 10);
var fetchAfter = Math.max(Math.min(countAfter, that._maxPageSize - (countBefore + 1)), that._minPageSize - (countBefore + 1));
fetchSize = countBefore + fetchAfter + 1;
fetchIndex = requestIndex - countBefore;
}
var requestStr = 'http://xxx/' + that._query;
return WinJS.xhr({ url: requestStr, type: "GET", /*user: "foo", password: that._devkey,*/ }).then(
function (request)
{
var results = [], count;
var obj = JSON.parse(request.responseText);
if (typeof obj.error === "undefined")
{
var items = obj;
for (var i = 0, itemsLength = items.length; i < itemsLength; i++)
{
var dataItem = items[i];
var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
// false = synchronous
req.open("get", "http://xxxxx/" + dataItem.id, false);
req.send();
var jobj = JSON.parse(req.response);
if (typeof jobj.error === "undefined")
{
results.push({
key: (fetchIndex + i).toString(),
data: {
title: jobj.name.normal,
date: Date.jsonFormat(dataItem.calculatedAt, "Do, MMM HH:mm Z"),
result: "",
status: "",
}
});
}
}
return {
items: results, // The array of items
offset: requestIndex - fetchIndex, // The offset into the array for the requested item
};
} else {
console.log(request.statusText, "sample", "error");
return WinJS.Promise.wrapError(new WinJS.ErrorFromName(WinJS.UI.FetchError.doesNotExist));
}
},
function (request)
{
if (request.status === 401) {
console.log(request.statusText, "sample", "error");
} else {
console.log("Error fetching data from the service. " + request.responseText, "sample", "error");
}
return WinJS.Promise.wrapError(new WinJS.ErrorFromName(WinJS.UI.FetchError.noResponse));
}
);
}
});
WinJS.Namespace.define("xxx", {
datasource: WinJS.Class.derive(WinJS.UI.VirtualizedDataSource, function (devkey, query, delay) {
this._baseDataSourceConstructor(new xxxDataAdapter(devkey, query, delay));
})
});
})();
And this is the synchronous request i would like to change to an asynchronous one:
var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
// false = synchronous
req.open("get", "http://xxxxx/" + dataItem.id, false);
req.send();
This is what i came up with. Map the json objects received asynchronously and make another asynchronous call for each object to get additional data. Then the nested async calls are joined and returned when all are finished.
return WinJS.xhr({ url: 'http://xxx=' + that._query }).then(function (request) {
var results = [];
var obj = JSON.parse(request.responseText);
var xhrs = obj.map(function (dataItem, index) {
return WinJS.xhr({ url: 'http://xxxx' + dataItem.attrx }).then(
function completed(nestedRequest) {
var xxJobj = JSON.parse(nestedRequest.responseText);
var dataObj = {};
dataObj.title = xxJobj.name;
dataObj.date = Date.jsonFormat(dataItem.attrtrxx, "Do, MMM HH:mm Z");
dataObj.result = "open";
dataObj.status = "foo";
if (dataItem.xx.hasOwnProperty("attrx5")) {
dataObj.opponent = dataItem.attrx4;
} else {
dataObj.opponent = dataItem.attrx3;
}
dataObj.page_title = "xXx";
dataObj.match_id = dataItem.id;
dataObj.type = "largeListIconTextItem";
dataObj.bg_image = "http://xxx/" + xxJobj.attrx2 + "-portrait.jpg";
results.push({
key: (fetchIndex + index).toString(),
data: dataObj
});
},
function (err) {
console.log(err.status);
console.log(err.responseText);
}
);
});
return WinJS.Promise.join(xhrs).then(
function (promises) {
return {
items: results, // The array of items
offset: requestIndex - fetchIndex, // The offset into the array for the requested item
};
},
function (err) {
console.log(JSON.stringify(err));
}
);
});