How can I do pagination with Bluebird Promises?

Question

I have something like

new Promise (resolve, reject) ->
  trader.getTrades limit, skip, (err, trades) ->
    return reject err if err

    resolve trade         


        

Answer 1

Here's my own solution to paging through promises: method page, as part of the spex library.

It also lets you throttle the processing and provide load balancing as needed.

Example

var promise = require('bluebird');
var spex = require('spex')(promise);

function source(index, data, delay) {
    // create and return an array/page of mixed values
    // dynamically, based on the index of the sequence;
    switch (index) {
        case 0:
            return [0, 1, promise.resolve(2)];
        case 1:
            return [3, 4, promise.resolve(5)];
        case 2:
            return [6, 7, promise.resolve(8)];
    }
    // returning nothing/undefined indicates the end of the sequence;
    // throwing an error will result in a reject;
}

function dest(idx, data, delay) {
    // data - resolved array data;
    console.log("LOG:", idx, data, delay);
}

spex.page(source, dest)
    .then(function (data) {
        console.log("DATA:", data); // print result;
    });

Output

LOG: 0 [ 0, 1, 2 ] undefined
LOG: 1 [ 3, 4, 5 ] 3
LOG: 2 [ 6, 7, 8 ] 0
DATA: { pages: 3, total: 9, duration: 7 }