element-web-Github/src/actions/actionCreators.js

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import dis from '../dispatcher';

/**
 * Create an action creator that will dispatch actions asynchronously that
 * indicate the current status of promise returned by the given function, fn.
 * @param {string} id the id to give the dispatched actions. This is given a
 *                   suffix determining whether it is pending, successful or
 *                   a failure.
 * @param {function} fn the function to call with arguments given to the
 *                   returned function. This function should return a Promise.
 * @returns a function that dispatches asynchronous actions when called.
 */
export function createPromiseActionCreator(id, fn) {
    return (...args) => {
        dis.dispatch({action: id + '.pending'});
        fn(...args).then((result) => {
            dis.dispatch({action: id + '.success', result});
        }).catch((err) => {
            dis.dispatch({action: id + '.failure', err});
        })
    }
}

/**
 * Create an action creator that will listen to events of type eventId emitted
 * by matrixClient and dispatch a corresponding action of the following shape:
 *     {
 *         action: 'MatrixActions.' + eventId,
 *         event: matrixEvent,
 *         event_type: matrixEvent.getType(),
 *         event_content: matrixEvent.getContent(),
 *     }
 * @param matrixClient{MatrixClient} the matrix client with which to register
 *                                   a listener.
 * @param eventId{string} the ID of the event that hen emitted will cause the
 *                        an action to be dispatched.
 * @returns a function that, when called, will begin to listen to dispatches
 *          from matrixClient. The result from that function can be called to
 *          stop listening.
 */
export function createMatrixActionCreator(matrixClient, eventId) {
    const listener = (matrixEvent) => {
        dis.dispatch({
            action: 'MatrixActions.' + eventId,
            event: matrixEvent,
            event_type: matrixEvent.getType(),
            event_content: matrixEvent.getContent(),
        });
    };
    return () => {
        matrixClient.on(eventId, listener);
        return () => {
            matrixClient.removeListener(listener);
        }
    }
}