Question

I am attempting to implement an asynchronous method queue in Javascript as seen in this blog post

Here’s what I have so far:

function Queue() {
  this._methods = [];
  this._response = null;
  this._flushed = false;
}

(function(Q){

  Q.add = function (fn) {
    if (this._flushed) fn(this._response);
    else this._methods.push(fn);
  }

  Q.flush = function (response) {
    if (this._flushed) return;
    this._response = response;
    while (this._methods[0]) {
      this._methods.shift()(response);
    }
    this._flushed = true;
  }

})(Queue.prototype);

I can’t seem to get it to work as advertised, although the code looks correct to me. When I call the flush function I get this._methods is undefined on the line while (this._methods[0]) {.

Answer 1

How are you using it? If you’re doing:

var q = new Queue();
q.flush("foo");

…you shouldn’t be getting that error, and I’m not: http://jsbin.com/iduji3