[SOLVED] Cannot get async javascript to work

Cannot get async javascript to work

I'm using node.js, RailwayJS and JugglingDB.

I have a model:

Model.afterInitialize = function() {
  var me = this;
  Sequence.getSequence('forModel', function(sequence) {
    me.serialId = sequence;
  });
  me.title = 'Hello';
}

Once it's all done only the attribute title is set. This isn't surprising but I cannot get it to work. I tried using the async module with no luck.

Solution

Model.afterInitialize is part of an third-party API that I cannot change, so unfortunately there is no way to do this. I was hoping some sort of infinite loop checking for a flag would work but it doesn't and it would be a bodge even if it did work.

I ended up hooking into another method Model.beforeSave = function(callback) {};, which requires a callback.

FYI I was using https://github.com/1602/jugglingdb