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Promises: Jogesh K. Muppala

Promises represent the eventual completion (or failure) of an asynchronous operation, and are used to provide a mechanism for asynchronous computation. A promise is created in a pending state, and may be fulfilled with a value at some point in the future, or rejected with a reason for failure. Promises support chaining of operations through then and catch methods, avoiding nested callbacks and making asynchronous code more readable.

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Promises: Jogesh K. Muppala

Promises represent the eventual completion (or failure) of an asynchronous operation, and are used to provide a mechanism for asynchronous computation. A promise is created in a pending state, and may be fulfilled with a value at some point in the future, or rejected with a reason for failure. Promises support chaining of operations through then and catch methods, avoiding nested callbacks and making asynchronous code more readable.

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Promises

Jogesh K. Muppala
Promise
• Promise is a mechanism that supports
asynchronous computation
• Proxy for a value not necessarily known when the
promise is created:
– It represents a value that may be available now, or in
the future, or never

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Promise
Promise
(pending)

resolve/fulfill reject

Promise Promise
(resolved/fulfilled) (rejected)

new Promise ( function (resolve, reject) { . . . } );

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Promise Example
. . . getDishes(): Promise<Dish[]> {
getDishes()
return new Promise (
function(resolve, reject) {
.then ( function(result) {
// do something
if (successful) {
} ) resolve(result);
}

.catch ( function(error) { else {


reject(error);
}

} ); });
}

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Why Promises?
• Solves the callback hell (heavily nested callback
code) problem
• Promises can be chained
• Can immediately return:
– Promise.resolve(result)
– Promise.reject(error)

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