A coordinated queue of actions

The class ActionQueue allows to create a FIFO, LIFO and replacement of actions. An action is a function that returns a Promise.

API

new ActionQueue(options)

Creates a new action queue. You can pass an object with options:

• createPromises, it should be a bool to indicate if the functions 'append', 'prepend' and 'replace' should create and promises. Defaults to true.

• rejectCanceled, it should be a bool to indicate if we reject the promises (if createPromises is also true) that are cancelled while still in the queue. See the methods replace and clear below.

• workers, if present it should a small integer to indicate the amount of actions the queue can run concurrently. We advice that you really small number: max. 10. The default is 1, which means no concurrency. Ignored if not a number, or smaller than 1.

append(fn, ...args)

Push a new action using a FIFO strategy. The new action is going to be executed after all current pending actions in the queue.

If the option createPromises is true, return a promise that is equivalent to the one that would be returned by the action after it starts running. This promise will resolve only if/when the action runs and resolves, and it will reject when the action rejects or is cancelled.

If createPromises is false, return undefined.

Any additional args passed to this method is stored and passed to callbacks.

prepend(fn, ...args)

Prepend a new action using a LIFO strategy. If a current action is already running don't cancel it, instead queue the given action to be run later but before any other action in the queue.

If the option createPromises is true, return a promise that is equivalent to the one that would be returned by the action after it starts running. This promise will resolve only if/when the action runs and resolves, and it will reject when the action rejects or is cancelled.

If createPromises is false, return undefined.

Any additional args passed to this method is stored and passed to callbacks.

replace(fn, ...args)

Cancel all pending and running actions in the queue and replace it with a new action. This is the same as calling clear and then append.

clear()

Cancel all pending and running actions in the queue.

then(callback)

Register a callback to be called when any of the actions is completed successfully without being cancelled from the queue.

The callbacks will receive all arguments the underlying Promise yields when resolving plus the extra args passed in append or prepend.

catch(callback)

Register a callback to be called when any of the actions is rejected without being cancelled.

The callbacks will receive all arguments the underlying Promise yields when resolving plus the extra args passed in append or prepend.

finally(callback)

Register a callback to be called when any of the actions is resolved, rejected or cancelled (evicted from the queue).

The callbacks will receive all arguments the underlying Promise yields when resolving plus the extra args passed in append or prepend. If the action was actually cancelled, there's no result and only the extra args are passed.

oncancel(callback)

Register a callback to be called when any of the actions is cancelled (evicted from the queue).

The callbacks will receive the extra args passed in append or prepend.

length()

Return the length of queue including the running action.

promise()

Return a promise that resolves/rejects just as soon as the first pending/running action resolves/rejects.

Cancelations don't affect the promise. If the running action gets cancelled midway, this promise will take over on the next action. If no action is scheduled to be next, we wait.

The only way this promise is rejected, is if the running action is rejected. The only way this promise is resolved, is when the running action is resolved.

When the same queue is used several times, calls to promise may return different promises.