I am having a problem where I want to stop a particular function from executing. This function is located on another plugin which I can't change the core files so I am wondering if I can stop a specific function from that file from executing?
So for example that function is testFunction(); and I want to stop that later in the code maybe in on document ready...etc.
Thanks!
Is the function public (as opposed to private via a closure)? And, does it need to be operational at all for things to work, or can you chop it out in total and be fine? If the latter, you can replace the function with a new one:
otherLibrary.testFunction = function(){};
If you want to disable it for a temporary amount of time, you can store the function in a temporary variable, and restore it later:
var removedFunc = otherLibrary.testFunction;
otherLibrary.testFunction = function(){};
// do something, time passes, whatever...
otherLibrary.testFunction = removedFunc;
Or, if you want to be able to toggle it, a slight variation:
var removedFunc = otherLibrary.testFunction;
var testFunctionEnabled = true;
otherLibrary.textFunction = function(){
if(testFunctionEnabled){
removedFunc.call(this, arguments);
}
};
And then just set testFunctionEnabled as you need to.
you should try to extend the function before you call it e.g.
$.extend(plugin.function, myNewFunction);
also, check the plugin API to see if you can pass a paramter to override the function or actually access the api of the plugin e.g.
$('#mytip').api('hover', myHoverFunction);
If you have access to the object which refers to the "testFunction" function then you could replace it with an empty function, e.g.:
SomePlugin.testFunction = function() { };
Ultimately, if you don't have a way to overwrite that symbol then there's not much you can do to stop the method from running (unless you can provide more details).
If that function schedules itself with setInterval, you can use clearInterval(thefunction) to prevent it from being called again. But if it's a loop, I don't know if that's possible.
Simply set the function to null.
JavaScript example:
function write() {
el.innerHTML += 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.<br />';
if (execute != null) execute();
}
function execute() {
setTimeout(function() { write() }, 500);
}
function abort() {
execute = null;
}
window.onload = function() {
el = document.getElementById('blah');
execute();
}
HTML:
<button type="button" onclick="abort()">Abort</button>
<p id="blah"></p>
Also you can change the following to implement stop/start. For this, assign the execute function to a variable so that you can later assign that variable back to execute.
var oldfunc = execute;
function abort() {
if (execute == null) {
execute = oldfunc;
execute();
} else {
execute = null;
}
alert(execute);//shows the function code
}
You can overwite any method you have access to- but if the code in your module calls it internally you better give it an appropriate return.
document.write=function(){return true};
alert(document.write('tell me more!'))
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I am using an already defined function and now want to add a pollServer function to it so that this functions runs over and over. I keep getting errors when I try to wrap the existing function in another. Is there a better way to do this?
function callD(id) {
jQuery('document').ready(function pollServer(){
window.setTimeout(function () {
var ab = document.getElementById('a')
console.log(ab);
var bod = document.getElementById(+id)
if (ab == null) {
bod.style.background='green'
} else {
bod.style.background='blue'
}
}, 1200);
})
}
callD();
pollServer();
pollServer isn't defined where you're calling it. Also id isn't being passed to callD, and you also have a +id which doesn't make sense in a document.getElementByid, since if there's any non-number in the ID, that would be NaN. You're also not polling a server, you're setting a timeout once and doing some work that doesn't involve a server. You would want setInterval for regular polling, or to call the function again on some condition like a failure.
$(document).ready(function () {
var intervalId;
function callD(id) {
function pollServer() {
intervalId = window.setInterval(function () {
var ab = document.getElementById('a')
console.log(ab);
var bod = document.getElementById(id)
if (ab == null) {
bod.style.background='green'
} else {
bod.style.background='blue'
}
}, 1200);
}
pollServer();
}
callD('some-id');
// on some condtion eventually:
clearInterval(intervalId);
})
Yeah, jQuery can make things pretty gnarly with all the nested callbacks. To make the code cleaner and easier to understand, I like to split my functions up and define them all at the top-most level of the script, then compose them together like so:
/**
* this function will check for the existing elements
* and update styles
*/
function setBodyStyle(id) {
var ab = document.getElementById('a');
console.log(ab);
var bod = document.getElementById(+id);
if (ab == null) {
bod.style.background='green';
} else {
bod.style.background='blue';
}
}
/**
* this function will create a timeout or interval
* which will in turn run setBodyStyle()
*/
function pollServer() {
// I think you want setInterval here if you're polling?
// setInterval will run _every_ 1200ms,
// setTimeout only runs once after 1200ms
window.setInterval(function() {
// not sure where you're getting id from,
// but you'll want to pass it here
setBodyStyle();
}, 1200);
}
// when the document is ready, run pollServer()
jQuery(document).ready(pollServer);
Having small functions that do one thing is just best-practice for the reasons I mentioned above. This will help your script be more understandable, which will help you find bugs.
For example, two things I don't understand about your code above:
where does the id variable come from? I don't see you passing it to your function from anywhere
how does your script poll the server? I don't see the code for that anywhere either.
Seemed you mean run the function pollServer every 1.2 sec. If so, you'd need to do two things
Use setInterval rather than setTimeout
Delete the last line for the pollServer function, because it is not accessible from outside the ready function block.
I am creating AngularJS Javascript application in which i have 500/600 function in a single Directive,
Many functions are Inter connected with each other,
flow starts from the On load Event,
I want to know when i run the project,
which functions are being called on Onload Event
and i want to print the same on console,
I google it but i am not able to get anything,
is there any way to find out the functions which is being executed?
Call console.trace('calling on-load') to find stack-trace on on-load function. It would be better to call trace on the last function you expect to be executed to find all other function which has been called before.
You can wrap all your functions into "log wrapper":
var self = this;
function LogWrapper(action){
return function(){
console.log(action.name);
return action.apply(self, arguments);
}
}
//usage:
function ActualFunctionInner(arg1, arg2){
//some logic
}
var ActualFunction = LogWrapper(ActualFunctionInner);
var result = ActualFunction(1, 2);//console: ActualFunctionInner
Second solution is via Proxy:
let handler = {
get(target, propKey) {
var inner = target[propKey];
return function () {
console.log(inner.name);
return inner.apply(this, arguments);
};
}
};
var loggedSelf = new Proxy(self, handler);
var result = loggedSelf.ActualFunction(1, 2);//console: ActualFunction
var sc = new stuCore();
function stuCore() {
this.readyPages = [];
this.once = true;
var self = this;
// gets called asynchronously
this.doPrepPage = function (page){
if(self.once == true){
// still gets executed every time, assignment fails
self.once = false;
doSomeStuffOnce();
}
};
this.addReadyPage = function (pageid) {
console.log("readypage called");
this.readyPages.push(pageid);
if (!$.inArray(pageid, self.readyPages) != -1) {
this.doPrepPage(pageid);
}
};
}
why does this assignment fail? I thought I knew the basics of js, but I'm stumped by this. And furthermore what would be a possible solution? call a constructor first and set the variable there?
EDIT:
gets called like this in some other script:
sc.addReadyPage(self.id);
The jQuery.inArray function will return the index in the containing array for the given value. Your script pushes pageid into this.readyPages before checking whether it exists in self.readyPages. this.readyPages and self.readyPages are the same array reference, so the result will always be zero or greater, so the condition that calls doPrepPage will never run.
You could try switching their order around:
this.addReadyPage = function (pageid) {
console.log("readypage called");
if ($.inArray(pageid, self.readyPages) != -1) {
this.readyPages.push(pageid);
this.doPrepPage(pageid);
}
};
(edit: Removed the additional !, thanks #chumkiu)
If I understand correctly you're calling this.doPrepPage as <insert variable name here>.doPrepPage?
If this is the case then your var self passes through to the anonymous function and is stored there, so everytime you call this.doPrepPage it takes the local variable of self.
Try setting self to a global variable, this way it will permanently modify self so each time this.doPrepPage is called it uses the updated variable.
I have this following piece of code:
var stats = {
....,
checkExistance :
function(url){
var newUrl = url.substring(0, url.lastIndexOf("/")) + "/asyncCheckChartExistance";
var xhrObj = stats.getXhr();
var poolInterval = setInterval("poll()", 100);
function poll(){
xhrObj.open("GET", newUrl, true);
xhrObj.send(null);
xhrObj.onreadystatechange = function(){
if(xhrObj.readyState === 4 && xhrObj.status === 200){
if (xhrObj.responseText.length === true){
console.log("Exists!");
clearInterval(poolInterval);
} else {
console.log("Not Yet!");
}
}
}
}
},
}
I created the stats namespace. In this namespace I'm trying to create a function which polls the server every second. I should access this function this way: stats.checkExistance(myUrl).
However it seems that the setInterval function is not able to see the poll() function. I know that this is normal behavior taking in consideration that these are nested inside another function.
If I were to write this in the Global namespace there would be no problem but I'm interested to make this work in this kind of namespace. Any ideas? Thanks!
when you pass a string to setInterval, it runs in the global scope, by default, where poll would not be defined since it only exists in the scope of the checkExistance function.
To fix the issue, pass an anonymous function to setInterval instead:
var poolInterval = setInterval(function () {
poll();
}, 100);
Passing an anonymous function is usually the best idea as it allows you to write any javascript expressions/statements for the interval instead of just calling one function.
When you pass a string to setInterval, that string is interpreted as global code, and since poll is not a global function, a reference error is thrown.
However, you can pass a function reference instead of a string, and since the poll function is available in the scope in which the setInterval invocation is made, you can just write this:
var poolInterval = setInterval( poll, 100 );
var stat = {
say: function(name){
function doit(){
console.log(name);
}
setInterval(doit, 1000);
}
};
stat.say("hi");
A simple demo to show how. You will see "hi" every second.
EDIT
Let me get more to the point. I'm trying to create a psuedo promise implementation. The idea here being that I have a callback that won't be executed until an asynchronous call is received. So I'm simply queueing up all the calls to this function until the time at which it's notified that it can be executed. The queue is emptied and any further call to the function is SUPPOSED to execute immediately, but for some reason, the function is still queueing. This is because, for whatever reason, my redefinition of the runner function is not working correctly. The code below was my sleep deprived, frustrated version of every thought that went through my head. Here's the actual code:
function Promise(callback){
var queue = []
, callback = callback
, runner = function(){
queue.push({
context: this,
args: Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 0)
});
}
;//var
runner.exec = function(){
for(var i = 0, ilen = queue.length; i < ilen; i++){
var q = queue[i];
callback.apply(q.context, q.args);
}
runner = callback;
};
return runner;
}
test = Promise(function(){
$('<div/>').appendTo('#output').html(Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments,0).toString());
});
test(1,2);
test(3,4);
test.exec();
test(5,6);
http://jsfiddle.net/a7gaR/
I'm banging my head against the wall with this one. I'm trying to reassign variables in a function from a call outside the function itself (ideally by passing a reassignment function as a callback). In the example I posted on jsfiddle, I made a global function that, in theory, has a reference to the variables contained within its parent function. Upon calling that external function, I expect it to reassign the values that the other function is using. It doesn't seem to work this way.
window.test = function temp() {
var val = 7,
func = function() {
return val;
};
window.change = function() {
window.test.val = 555555;
$('<div>Changing ' + val + ' to ' + window.test.val +
'</div>').appendTo($output);
val = window.test.val;
temp.val = window.test.val;
func = function() {
return 'Why isn\'t this working?';
}
}
return func();
}
var $output = $('#output');
$('<div/>').appendTo($output).html('::' + test() + '::');
window.change();
$('<div/>').appendTo($output).html('::' + test() + '::');
http://jsfiddle.net/YhyMK/
The second time you call test you're creating a new local variable called func and defining a new window.change that closes over that new variable. The changes you made to the original func by calling the original window.change are not relevant in the second call.
Also note that the following line:
window.test.val = 555555;
...does not modify/refer to the val variable in the outer function. window.test.val refers to a property named val on the test object (which happens to be a function), not any local variable.
You are trying to refer to a local variable in a function with the syntax func.varname. That won't work, that's not the way local variables work.
I finally created a function that would perform this operation. The gist for it is here: https://gist.github.com/2586972.
It works like this...
You make a call to Defer passing the callback whose functionality you'd like to delay:
var deferredCB = Defer(function(){ console.log(this,arguments) };
deferredCB will now store all of the arguments you pass allowing them to be executed at some later date:
defferedCB(1);
defferedCB(2);
Now, when you're ready to perform the operation, you simply "execute" deferredCB:
defferedCB.exec();
Which results in:
// window, 1
// window, 2
All future calls to deferredCB will be executed immediately. And now that I'm thinking about it, I'll probably do a rewrite to allow you to reset deferredCB to it's pre-executed state (storing all the arguments again).
The key to making it work was having a wrapper function. Javascript simply won't let you reassign a function while it's being executed.
TADA!!!