File: timers/js/timers.js
/**
* Provides utilities for timed asynchronous callback execution.
* Y.soon is a setImmediate/process.nextTick/setTimeout wrapper.
* @module timers
* @author Steven Olmsted
*/
var YGLOBAL = Y.config.global,
/**
* Y.soon accepts a callback function. The callback function will be called
* once in a future turn of the JavaScript event loop. If the function
* requires a specific execution context or arguments, wrap it with Y.bind.
* Y.soon returns an object with a cancel method. If the cancel method is
* called before the callback function, the callback function won't be
* called.
* @method soon
* @for YUI
* @param {Function} callbackFunction
* @return {Object} An object with a cancel method. If the cancel method is
* called before the callback function, the callback function won't be
* called.
*/
soon = function (callbackFunction) {
var canceled;
soon._asynchronizer(function () {
// Some asynchronizers may provide their own cancellation
// methods such as clearImmediate or clearTimeout but some
// asynchronizers do not. For simplicity, cancellation is
// entirely handled here rather than wrapping the other methods.
// All asynchronizers are expected to always call this anonymous
// function.
if (!canceled) {
callbackFunction();
}
});
return {
cancel: function () {
canceled = 1;
}
};
};
/**
* The asynchronizer is the internal mechanism which will call a function
* asynchronously. This property is exposed as a convenient way to define a
* different asynchronizer implementation without having to rewrite the
* entire Y.soon interface.
* @method _asynchronizer
* @for soon
* @param {Function} callbackFunction The function to call asynchronously.
* @protected
*/
/**
* Since Y.soon is likely to have many differing asynchronizer
* implementations, this property should be set to identify which
* implementation is in use.
* @property _impl
* @protected
* @type String
*/
// Check for a native or already polyfilled implementation of setImmediate.
if ('setImmediate' in YGLOBAL) {
soon._asynchronizer = function (callbackFunction) {
setImmediate(callbackFunction);
};
soon._impl = 'setImmediate';
}
// Check for process and process.nextTick
else if (('process' in YGLOBAL) && ('nextTick' in process)) {
soon._asynchronizer = process.nextTick;
soon._impl = 'nextTick';
}
// The most widely supported asynchronizer is setTimeout so we use that as
// the fallback.
else {
soon._asynchronizer = function (callbackFunction) {
setTimeout(callbackFunction, 0);
};
soon._impl = 'setTimeout';
}
Y.soon = soon;