[removed] Asynchronous method in while loop

Question

I\'m tackling a project that requires me to use JavaScript with an API method call. I\'m a Java programmer who has never done web development before so I\'m having some trou

Answer 1

If you don't want to use Promises you can restructure your code like so:

var tasks = [];
var index = 0;

function processNextTask()
{
    if(++index == tasks.length)
    {
        // no more tasks
        return;
    }

    async_api_call(
        "method.name", 
        { 
            // Do stuff.
        },
        function(result) 
        {
            if(result.error())
            {
                console.error(result.error());
            }
            else
            {
                // process data
                setTimeout(processNextTask);
            }
        }
    );
}