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user2727195
user2727195

Reputation: 7330

Promise.all with nested Promise.all

I've nested arrays, I'm able to retrieve promises for the 2nd level array but not sure how to implement a then once top level finishes as well.

result.forEach(function(entity){ // outer list ???
    return Promise.all(entity.urls.map(function(item){
        return requestURL(item.href);
    }));
});

for instance if results has two or more items and each item has 10 or more urls to fetch, how would we implement then of [Promise.all][1] for all the promises. Native solution please.

Basically to handle nested arrays of promises in a right way.

Data Structure:

var result = [
    {
        urls: [
            {href: "link1"},
            {href: "link2"},
            {href: "link3"}
        ]
    },
    {
        urls: [
            {href: "link4"},
            {href: "link5"},
            {href: "link6"}
        ]
    }
];

Upvotes: 25

Views: 51454

Answers (1)

Oriol
Oriol

Reputation: 288000

Use map instead of forEach, and wrap it inside another Promise.all call.

var arr = [
  {subarr: [1,2,3]},
  {subarr: [4,5,6]},
  {subarr: [7,8,9]}
];
function processAsync(n) {
  return new Promise(function(resolve) {
    setTimeout(
      function() { resolve(n * n); },
      Math.random() * 1e3
    );
  });
}
Promise.all(arr.map(function(entity){
  return Promise.all(entity.subarr.map(function(item){
    return processAsync(item);
  }));
})).then(function(data) {
  console.log(data);
});

You can also use an immediately invoked generator. For example, to get flattened results,

var arr = [
  {subarr: [1,2,3]},
  {subarr: [4,5,6]},
  {subarr: [7,8,9]}
];
function processAsync(n) {
  return new Promise(function(resolve) {
    setTimeout(
      function() { resolve(n * n); },
      Math.random() * 1e3
    );
  });
}
Promise.all(function*() {
  for(var entity of arr)
    for(var item of entity.subarr)
      yield processAsync(item);
}()).then(function(data) {
  console.log(data);
});

Upvotes: 47

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