Control-flow libraries are the first line of defense between your
application code and third-party modules. Stepup for instance, my
control-flow library of choice, has such protection:
https://github.com/CrabDude/stepup

Cheers,
Adam


On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Alex Kocharin <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> It's rather simple to create a wrapper that counts a number of times
> callback is called and throws when this number isn't 1. And call it like
> this:
>
> fs.readFile('something', wrap(callback));
>
> But you'll have to do it every time, so I don't think it's going to be
> used widely.
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 10:28:34 AM UTC+4, jeevan kk wrote:
>>
>> Mark,
>>
>> I agree with you that in some cases its meaningful. But I am into a huge
>> project where we use a large number of third party modules. Its not
>> practical to keep a flag everywhere and check it. I was searching for some
>> general approach which we can follow. We can't find the faulty module until
>> it lands in that edge case. And there are cases where we can ignore the
>> callback getting called multiple times.
>>
>> On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 11:32:18 UTC+5:30, Mark Hahn wrote:
>>>
>>> The http module calls back every request.  Sometimes multiple callbacks
>>> make sense.  Are the modules you are having trouble with supposed to only
>>> return once?  If so then post a bug report.
>>>
>>> I don't know what else you could do.  I guess you could set a flag when
>>> you send the callback function, clear it the first callback, and then
>>> ignore the callback after that.  I would never do this because I would be
>>> blindly ignoring a problem.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:17 PM, jeevan kk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am using different 3rd party modules in my project. I have seen, in
>>>> some odd situations the 3rd party module which I am using is calling the
>>>> callback multiple times.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any general approach which I can follow so avoid such
>>>> situations.
>>>>
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