With plain old vanilla javaScript, here's a solution to promisify an api callback.
function get(url, callback) {
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('get', url);
xhr.addEventListener('readystatechange', function () {
if (xhr.readyState === 4) {
if (xhr.status === 200) {
console.log('successful ... should call callback ... ');
callback(null, JSON.parse(xhr.responseText));
} else {
console.log('error ... callback with error data ... ');
callback(xhr, null);
}
}
});
xhr.send();
}
/**
* @function promisify: convert api based callbacks to promises
* @description takes in a factory function and promisifies it
* @params {function} input function to promisify
* @params {array} an array of inputs to the function to be promisified
* @return {function} promisified function
* */
function promisify(fn) {
return function () {
var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);
return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
fn.apply(null, args.concat(function (err, result) {
if (err) reject(err);
else resolve(result);
}));
});
}
}
var get_promisified = promisify(get);
var promise = get_promisified('some_url');
promise.then(function (data) {
// corresponds to the resolve function
console.log('successful operation: ', data);
}, function (error) {
console.log(error);
});