Question

I have a javascript object like so:

var object = [{ id: 1, title:"xyz" }, {id: 2, title: "abc"}, {id: 3, title: "sdfs"}];

Now what I want to do is go through the object such that it would read the first id and output “xyz”, then pause for 5 seconds, then go through the second id and output “abc”, pause for 5 seconds again then go through the third entry output “sdfs”, pause for 5 seconds yet again and start all over from entry 1. I want this to go on indefinitely. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Your basic recursive function:

function recursive(obj,idx) {
    if (obj[idx]) {
        alert(obj[idx].title);
       setTimeout(function(){recursive(obj,idx+1);}, 5000); // milliseconds
    };
};
recursive(myObject,0);

Or, to loop infinitely:

function recursive(obj,idx) {
    if (obj[idx]) {
        alert(obj[idx].title);
        setTimeout(function(){recursive(obj,idx+1);}, 5000); // milliseconds
    } else {
        recursive(obj,0);
    };
};
recursive(myObject,0);

http://jsfiddle.net/Mezxw/