Get state of Angular deferred?

Question

With jQuery deferreds I\'m used to be able to check the current state like this:

var defer = $.Deferred();
defer.state();  //Returns the state of the deferre         


        

Answer 1

Updated:

Unfortunately this doesn't looks like its possible with $q. You'll have to put this code inside your then method.

myPromise()
.then(function() {
    // everything in here resolved
},
function() {
    // everything in here rejected
},
function() {
    // everything in here pending (with progress back)
});

Other:

This is for the Q library not angular's $q but similar.

Angular is inspired by the Q library, check out the source, its actually not that scary. https://github.com/kriskowal/q/blob/v1/q.js

You can use myPromise.inspect().state there are ['pending', 'rejected', 'fulfilled']

You also have:

myPromise.isFulfilled();
myPromise.isPending();
myPromise.isRejected();

Check out this JSfiddle and open the console for logged results. http://jsfiddle.net/S6LzP/

More granular, Looking at the defer function on line 488:

function defer() {
    // if "messages" is an "Array", that indicates that the promise has not yet
    // been resolved.  If it is "undefined", it has been resolved.  Each
    // element of the messages array is itself an array of complete arguments to
    // forward to the resolved promise.  We coerce the resolution value to a
    // promise using the `resolve` function because it handles both fully
    // non-thenable values and other thenables gracefully.
    var messages = [], progressListeners = [], resolvedPromise;

    var deferred = object_create(defer.prototype);
    var promise = object_create(Promise.prototype);

    promise.promiseDispatch = function (resolve, op, operands) {
        var args = array_slice(arguments);
        if (messages) {
            messages.push(args);
            if (op === "when" && operands[1]) { // progress operand
                progressListeners.push(operands[1]);
            }
        } else {
            nextTick(function () {
                resolvedPromise.promiseDispatch.apply(resolvedPromise, args);
            });
        }
    };

    // XXX deprecated
    promise.valueOf = function () {
        if (messages) {
            return promise;
        }
        var nearerValue = nearer(resolvedPromise);
        if (isPromise(nearerValue)) {
            resolvedPromise = nearerValue; // shorten chain
        }
        return nearerValue;
    };

    promise.inspect = function () {
        if (!resolvedPromise) {
            return { state: "pending" };
        }
        return resolvedPromise.inspect();
    };

    if (Q.longStackSupport && hasStacks) {
        try {
            throw new Error();
        } catch (e) {
            // NOTE: don't try to use `Error.captureStackTrace` or transfer the
            // accessor around; that causes memory leaks as per GH-111. Just
            // reify the stack trace as a string ASAP.
            //
            // At the same time, cut off the first line; it's always just
            // "[object Promise]\n", as per the `toString`.
            promise.stack = e.stack.substring(e.stack.indexOf("\n") + 1);
        }
    }

    // NOTE: we do the checks for `resolvedPromise` in each method, instead of
    // consolidating them into `become`, since otherwise we'd create new
    // promises with the lines `become(whatever(value))`. See e.g. GH-252.

    function become(newPromise) {
        resolvedPromise = newPromise;
        promise.source = newPromise;

        array_reduce(messages, function (undefined, message) {
            nextTick(function () {
                newPromise.promiseDispatch.apply(newPromise, message);
            });
        }, void 0);

        messages = void 0;
        progressListeners = void 0;
    }

    deferred.promise = promise;
    deferred.resolve = function (value) {
        if (resolvedPromise) {
            return;
        }

        become(Q(value));
    };

    deferred.fulfill = function (value) {
        if (resolvedPromise) {
            return;
        }

        become(fulfill(value));
    };
    deferred.reject = function (reason) {
        if (resolvedPromise) {
            return;
        }

        become(reject(reason));
    };
    deferred.notify = function (progress) {
        if (resolvedPromise) {
            return;
        }

        array_reduce(progressListeners, function (undefined, progressListener) {
            nextTick(function () {
                progressListener(progress);
            });
        }, void 0);
    };

    return deferred;
}

Mostly notably the method at the very bottom deferred.notify.

Example usage:

function requestOkText(url) {
    var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
    var deferred = Q.defer();

    request.open("GET", url, true);
    request.onload = onload;
    request.onerror = onerror;
    request.onprogress = onprogress;
    request.send();

    function onload() {
        if (request.status === 200) {
            deferred.resolve(request.responseText);
        } else {
            deferred.reject(new Error("Status code was " + request.status));
        }
    }

    function onerror() {
        deferred.reject(new Error("Can't XHR " + JSON.stringify(url)));
    }

    function onprogress(event) {
        deferred.notify(event.loaded / event.total);
    }

    return deferred.promise;
}

requestOkText("http://localhost:3000")
.then(function (responseText) {
    // If the HTTP response returns 200 OK, log the response text.
    console.log(responseText);
}, function (error) {
    // If there's an error or a non-200 status code, log the error.
    console.error(error);
}, function (progress) {
    // Log the progress as it comes in.
    console.log("Request progress: " + Math.round(progress * 100) + "%");
});