CHAPTER 6 Ensuring Correct Use of the Promise Pattern
WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?
- Using and testing Promises
- Understanding Promise states and fates
- Constructing Promises
- Testing a Promise-wrapped XMLHttpRequest
- Chaining Promises
- How “Deferred” libraries handle advanced scenarios in Promise testing
- A caution about jQuery promises
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The last chapter illustrated how to code and test (or, more correctly, test and code) the Callback Pattern. In the main example, checkInService.checkIn(attendee) was used as a callback function in iteration through all attendees to check them into a JavaScript conference. This chapter will extend that feature, adding error handling and asynchronous processing.
Although this could be done with JavaScript events, ECMAScript 6 has introduced a better way: the Promise object. If you must support older browsers, polyfills are available.
UNDERSTANDING PROMISES THROUGH UNIT TESTS
A Promise is an object that encapsulates an asynchronous operation and what to do upon its eventual outcome. When the operation completes, a callback encapsulated in the Promise will be invoked. Actually, there can be two callbacks: one for success and one for failure. (The first callback does not ...
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