Question

Consider the following ‘push’ scenario.

(global) var refs = [] ;

var record = {id:1, references: ["12","145"]};
refs.push(record);

Nevertheless, when I debug with Chrome, the push function is skipped and the refs array is empty at the end. What is the reason?

EDIT:

The full code is something like this:

    gadgets.sciverse.makeRequest(entry['prism:url'], function(obj) {
        var testJson = $.xml2json(obj['text']);
        //  console.log(testJson);

        var tempArr = [];

        if (!testJson) {
            console.log('empty secondary response');
            return ;
        }

        var refSet = testJson ['item']['bibrecord']['tail']['bibliography']['reference'];

        if (!refSet)
            tempArr = [] ;
        else {
            $.each(refSet, function(i, e){
                tempArr.push(e['ref_info']['refd_itemidlist']['itemid']['text']);
            })
        }

        var verySillyTemp = {
            id: pid,
            arr: tempArr
        } ;

        refs.push( verySillyTemp );
    },params);

    console.log(refs);

Answer 1

Looks like refs is being set in an asynchronous call and you are logging it before it is set.