Cancelable

Wrapper to create cancelable promises.

A Promise cannot be canceled since once it is created and fulfillment or a rejection handler is registered to it, there is no external mechanism to stop its progression. A Cancelable wraps the ES6 standard Promise, and it is compatible with whatever promise-consuming tool.

Status

Installation

npm install --save promise-cancelable

or

yarn add promise-cancelable

What is a Cancelable

A Cancelable implements the same methods of a standard ES6 Promise, however:

• It can be canceled. Once the .cancel() method is called it notifies all registered resolution handlers.
• The constructor executor parameter receives an additional onCancel argument is executed once the .cancel() is called.

API

Cancelable

The constructor has a single parameter - the Cancelable resolver, which is a function that is passed with the arguments resolve, reject and onCancel. The onCancel is a function that receives an handler which that is called once the Cancelable is canceled.

const delay = delta => {
  return new Cancelable((resolve, reject, onCancel) => {
    const id = setTimeout(() => {
      resolve(id);
    }, delta);

    // Called when canceled.
    onCancel(() => {
      clearTimeout(id);

      console.log(`Cancelled! ${id}`);
    });
  });
};

// Without cancelation.
delay(100)
  .then(console.log); // > '1'

// With cancelation.
delay(100)
  .then(console.log) // Not called.
  .cancel(); // > 'Cancelled 1'

Static methods

Cancelable.all(iterable: Iterable<T>): Cancelable<Array<T>>

Has the same behaviour as the Promise.all method, except when it is canceled it cancels all Cancelables included on the iterable argument.

Returns a cancelable that either fulfills when all of the values in the iterable argument have fulfilled or rejects as soon as one of the cancelables in the iterable argument rejects. This method wraps the Promise.all method and creates a list of cancelables that are canceled when .cancel() is called.

// Without cancelation.
Cancelable
  .all(['foo', delay(1), delay(2)])
  .then(console.log); // > ['foo', 1, 2]

// With cancelation.
Cancelable
  .all([delay(1), delay(2)])
  .then(console.log); // Not called.
  .cancel()
  // > Cancelled 1
  // > Cancelled 2

Cancelable.race(iterable: Iterable<T>): Cancelable<T>

Has the same behaviour as the Promise.race method, except when it is canceled it cancels all Cancelables included on the iterable argument. Returns a cancelable that fulfills or rejects as soon as one of the cancelables in the iterable fulfills or rejects, with the value or reason from that cancelable. This method wraps the Promise.all method and creates a list of cancelables that are canceled when .cancel() is called.

// Without cancelation.
Cancelable
  .race([delay(1), delay(2)])
  .then(console.log); // > 1

// With cancelation.
Cancelable
  .all([delay(1), delay(2)])
  .then(console.log); // Not called.
  .cancel()
  // > Cancelled 1
  // > Cancelled 2

Cancelable.resolve(value: any)

Has the same behavior as the Promise.resolve method. Returns a Cancelable object that is resolved with the given value. If the value is a thenable (i.e. has a then method), the returned cancelable will unwrap that thenable, adopting its eventual state. Otherwise the returned cancelable will be fulfilled with the value.

Cancelable.reject(value: any)

Has the same behavior as the Promise.reject method. Returns a Cancelable object that is rejected with the given reason.

Cancelable.isCancelable(value: any): boolean

Determines whether the passed value is a Cancelable.

Instance methods

Cancelable.prototype.isCanceled(): boolean

Determines whether the created Cancelable is canceled.

Cancelable.prototype.cancel(callback?: Function)

Cancels the Cancelable. It iterates upwards the chain canceling all the registered cancelables including its children. Unlike other implementations that rejects the promise when it is canceled, the cancel method receives an optional callback that is passed to the onCancel function. This way it is possible to cancel a cancelable without unhandled rejections.

const delay = delta => new Cancelable((resolve, reject, onCancel) => {
  const id = setTimeout(() => {
    resolve();
  });

  onCancel(cb => {
    clearTimeout(id);
    cb(id);
  });
});

delta(1000).cancel(() => {
  console.log(`Timeout "${id}" was canceled!`)
}); // > Timeout "1" was canceled!

Cancelable.prototype.catch(onRejected: Function): Cancelable

Has the same behavior of Promise.catch method. Appends a rejection handler callback to the cancelable, and returns a new Cancelable resolving to the return value of the callback if it is called, or to its original fulfillment value if the cancelable is instead fulfilled.

Cancelable.prototype.then(onFullfilled: Function, onRejected: Function): Cancelable

Has the same behavior of Promise.then method. Appends fulfillment and rejection handlers to the cancelable, and returns a new Cancelable resolving to the return value of the called handler, or to its original settled value if the promise was not handled.

Licence

MIT © João Granado