Exit polling with timeout

Question

I am looking for an elegant way to break out of this poll:

private pollLinkResult() {
        (function poll() {
            setTimeout(() => {
                   //call the service layer to do an ajax call
                //depending on the result I would like to exit the infinite poll
            }, 1000);
        })();      
}

Any ideas?

Answer 1

private pollLinkResult() {
        (function poll() {
            let myTimeout = setTimeout(() => {
                   //call the service layer to do an ajax call
                //depending on the result I would like to exit the infinite poll
if(yourCondition){
clearTimeout(myTimeout);
}
            }, 1000);
        })();      
}