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carduh
carduh

Reputation: 529

Creating non blocking function - Node.js

Imagine that I have a blocking function like this (the program will wait for the execution of random_operations:

var result = random_operations(arg1,arg2);

But now I make this:

function Op() {
  events.EventEmitter.call(this);

  this.get= function(arg1, arg2)
  {
  this.arg1 = arg1;
  this.arg2 = arg2;
  this.result = random_operations(this.arg1,this.arg2);
  this.emit('done', this.result);
  }
}

Op.prototype.__proto__ = events.EventEmitter.prototype;
var do_job = new Op();

do_job.on('done', function(resulted) {
    console.log('done '+ resulted);
  });

dojob.get(_arg1, _arg2);

Using random_operations like this means that node.js will not block? I am trying to understand how can I non-block the node.js.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 144

Answers (2)

Brian Cannard
Brian Cannard

Reputation: 873

You want to use Promise. You could emulate and understand it if pass a function which should be called after the operation completes. With call to setImmediate() you could postpone execution of the code inside that function.

Upvotes: 1

klaemo
klaemo

Reputation: 179

node.js only does non-blocking I/O (filesystem reads/writes, network requests etc). JavaScript is still single threaded and long-running code will block the event loop.

There are ways to defer such operations or run them in a child process, but that's a little more complicated.

Take a look at this answer

Upvotes: 2

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