var queue = require('queue-async'); var _ = require('underscore-cdb-v3'); /** * Convenient object to do async batch processing, and don't continue until all items have successfully finished. * In case of error it will fail immediately. * * Example usage: * var batchProcess = require('../common/batch_process_items'); * batchProcess({ * items: [ ... ], * done: function() { * this.close(); * }, * fail: function(jqXHR, errorType, e) { * this._errorMsg = 'Server response: '+ jqXHR.responseText; * this.render(); * } * }); * * @param opts {Object} * howManyInParallel: {Number} * items: {Array} each item will be passed to processItem(item, ... * processItem: {Function} given an item and a callback, should call callback() for success case, or callback(error) if something failed. * fail: {Function} * done: {Function} called if all items */ module.exports = function(opts) { var q = queue(opts.howManyInParallel); _.each(opts.items, function(item) { q.defer(function(callback) { opts.processItem(item, callback); }); }); q.awaitAll(function(error/*, result1, ..., resultN */) { // error and results contains outcome of the jqXHR requests above, see http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/#jqXHR if (error) { opts.fail(error); } else { opts.done(); } }); };