Question

I’m interacting with an API that allows one action per 5 seconds. However, I want to ensure all requests end up with the host. How can I queue and throttle the requests that are made against an API by using .ajax()?

Much obliged!

Answer 1

You could do something along these lines

var requests = [];

setInterval(function() {
    if(requests.length > 0) {
        var request = requests.pop();
        if(typeof request === "function") {
            request();
        }
    }
}, 5000);

// then anywhere you need to make an ajax request
requests.push(function() {
    // ajax request here
    $.ajax({
        url: "/foo", // some variable from outer scope
        success: function(a,b,c) {
            // handle it
        }
    });
});