I'm looking for a simple way to perform synchronous http-requests in node.js, but it's still getting async responses ...
I've realised that node.js is recommended to async jobs, but in my case,
I need the synchronous response to call other functions that use this data, if it's null/undefined
, I can't proceed with the flow...
What's the better way to do that?
Here's my code:
function callCellId(data) {
console.log("Data: " + data);
var towers = [],
rscp = [];
var request = require('sync-request');
for (var x = 0; x < data.length; x++) {
console.log("Request data: \n");
rscp[x] = data[x].rscp;
var res = request('POST', 'http://opencellid.org/cell/get?key=xxxxx&mcc=' + data[x].mcc + '&mnc=' + data[x].mnc + '&lac=' + data[x].LAC + '&cellid=' + data[x].cellID + '&format=json');
console.log("loop " + x);
data = res.getBody().toString();
console.log("rsp: " + data);
towers[x] = {
'latitude': data.lat,
'longitude': data.lon,
'rscp': rscp[x],
'signal': data.averageSignalStrength
};
}
console.log("Content for triangulation" + JSON.stringify(towers));
return towers;
}
Using async in a loop cloud be tricky.
I solved this without external libraries using generators:
LoopOperation: function() {
//define generator with the main loop
var loopIterator = function*() {
for (var index = 0; index < 10; index++) {
var result = yield asyncOperation( (res) => loopIterator.next(res)); //do something asyc and execute () => loopIterator.next() when done as callback
console.log(result);
}
}();
loopIterator.next(); //start loop
}