Question

How do I do a blocking call in javascript?

In the code below the alert at the last line of this code snippet hits before the code in if block completes which returns some value, by calling chached.get method in different js file.

var getCachedData = function(_key){

    var retStr;
    if (_key != '' || _key != null) {
        cached.get(_key, function(data){
                   if(data){ 
                       alert('data = ' +data.value);
                       return data.value;
                   }
                   else{  
                        return undefine;              
                   }                    
                 });                  
    }
    alert('completed');
}

Answer 1

The cached.get method must be doing something asynchronously. The function you supply to that method as an argument appears to be a callback function that executes once the get method has returned successfully. If you need to run code that is dependant on the result of the call to cached.get, you will need to put it inside that callback.