Poll Retry

Very simple polling abstraction to keep polling.

Installation

npm install poll-retry

Usage

Different capabilities supported are shown in this section. You can also refer to the unit tests for usage references.

Start Polling

All you need is function to execute on every poll. Just pass pollFn field with the polling function.

let counter = 0;
const pollFn = () => {
    counter++;
    // Print counter on every poll
    console.log('Counter increased: ', counter);
};
 
const poller = new Poller({ pollFn });
 
poller.start();

Above code is very simple example that simply keeps executing pollFn indefinitely.

Stop Polling

To stop polling at any point of time, simply use poller.stop().

let counter = 0;
const pollFn = () => {
    counter++;
    // Print counter on every poll
    console.log('Counter increased: ', counter);
};
 
const poller = new Poller({ pollFn });
 
poller.start();
 
setTimeout(() => {
    // Stop polling after 10 seconds
    poller.stop();
}, 10000)

Passing Parameters to polling function

When initializing the Poller, any parameters intended for pollFn can be passed in the field pollFnParameters wrapped in an object.

All the properties of the wrapper object will be shallow copied to pollFn as a first parameter. See example below:

const params = {
    counter: 0
};
 
const pollFn = (params) => {
    params.counter++;
    // Print counter on every poll
    console.log('Counter increased: ', params.counter);
};
 
const poller = new Poller({
                pollFn,
                pollFnParameters: params
            });
 
poller.start();

Subscribe to polling status

poller will generate the poll event on every time poll happens. You can subscribe to it by simply poller.on('poll', ...).

While the polling is going on status would indicate in_progress and after polling has finished would indicate stopped status.

poller.on('poll', (params, status) => {
    console.log('Parameters: ', params);
    console.log('Polling Status: ', status);
});

If you only want to get event when the polling ends. Then you can simply just subscribe to end event.

poller.on('end', (params, status) => {
    console.log('Parameters: ', params);
    console.log('Polling Status: ', status); // This will always be 'stopped'
});

Stop polling on a condition

You can pass a conditionFn property during initialization with a condition function which returns a boolean value. The polling will stop after this function returns true.

const params = {
    counter: 0
};
 
const pollFn = (params) => {
    params.counter++;
    // Print counter on every poll
    console.log('Counter increased: ', params.counter);
};
 
const poller = new Poller({
                pollFn,
                pollFnParameters: params,
                conditionFn: (params) => {
                    if (params.counter >= 5) {
                        console.log('Condition satisfied.');
                        return true;
                    }
                    return false;
                }
            });
 
poller.start();
 
// Notice that no need to execute poller.stop() manually when conditionFn used
 
poller.on('end', (params, status) => {
    console.log('Counter: ', params.counter); // Counter shows value as 6 in the end
    console.log('Polling Status: ', status); 
});

API

new Poller({ pollFn, [pollFnParameters, [conditionFn], [options]] })

Creates a new Poller instance.

• pollFn: Main polling function that needs to get called for every poll. Required.
• pollFnParameters: A JavaScript object that wraps any data required for pollFn. This object is shallow copied as 1st parameter to pollFn, conditionFn and events (poll and end)
• conditionFn: A function with any condition logic to break the polling. Polling stops after this function returns true.
• options: Additional options.
  • retryCount: Number of time polling should be performed. If conditionFn returns true before retry count reaches, polling stops.
  • delay: Amount of time in milliseconds to wait between the consecutive polls. Defaults to 1000 i.e. 1 second.
  • initialDelay: Amount of time in milliseconds to wait before starting first poll. Defaults to 0 i.e. no wait.

poller.start()

Start the polling according to initialized parameters in the poller instance.

poller.stop()

Stop the polling.

poller.on(eventName, eventFunction)

Subscribe to events. Supported events are poll and end.

// Initialization with all fields and options
const poller = new Poller({
                pollFn: (params) => {
                    params.counter++;
                },
                pollFnParameters: { counter: 0 },
                options: {
                    retryCount: 10,
                    delay: 250,
                    initialDelay: 1000
                },
                conditionFn: (params) => {
                    if (params.counter >= 5) {
                        console.log('condition met on counter value: ', params.counter);
                        return true;
                    }
                    return false;
                }
            });
 
// Start the polling
poller.start();
 
poller.on('poll', (params, status) => { 
    console.log('Polling status: ', status);
    if (status === 'in_progress' && params.counter === 6) {
        // Force stop for the edge cases
        poller.stop();
    }
});
 
 
poller.on('end', (params) => { 
    console.log('Polling ended. Params: ', params);
});