How do I execute jQuery promises in phantomJS?

Question

I\'m using trying to use nodejs and phantomjs on the server-side for SEO of our site. While ajax works fine, I\'m not able to execute custom promises that I\'ve used in my code.

Answer 1

PhantomJs does not automatically wait the end of all pending scripts. WebPage#onLoadFinished is called on the onload event.

As for most of the scripts, the idea here is to wait until "something" is done or true. I highly suggest you to test waitfor.js. It is really important to understand this example in PhantomJs.

I suppose your example is an example, but let me propose an answer.

Html Page

PhantomJs Script

var page = require('webpage').create();
var system = require('system');

function waitFor(testFx, onReady, timeOutMillis) {
    var maxtimeOutMillis = timeOutMillis ? timeOutMillis : 10000, //< Default Max Timout is 10s
        start = new Date().getTime(),
        condition = false,
        interval = setInterval(function () {
            if ((new Date().getTime() - start < maxtimeOutMillis) && !condition) {
                // If not time-out yet and condition not yet fulfilled
                condition = (typeof (testFx) === "string" ? eval(testFx) : testFx()); //< defensive code
            } else {
                if (!condition) {
                    // If condition still not fulfilled (timeout but condition is 'false')
                    //console.log("'waitFor()' timeout");
                    typeof (onReady) === "string" ? eval(onReady) : onReady();
                    clearInterval(interval);
                    //phantom.exit(1);
                } else {
                    // Condition fulfilled (timeout and/or condition is 'true')
                    console.log("'waitFor()' finished in " + (new Date().getTime() - start) + "ms.");
                    typeof (onReady) === "string" ? eval(onReady) : onReady(); //< Do what it's supposed to do once the condition is fulfilled
                    clearInterval(interval); //< Stop this interval
                }
            }
        }, 500); //< repeat check every 500ms
};

if (system.args.length != 1) {
    console.log('invalid call');
    phantom.exit(1);
} else {
    //adapt url to your context
    page.open('http://localhost:9231/demo.html', function (status) {
        if (status !== 'success') {
            console.log('Unable to load the address!');
            phantom.exit();
        } else {
            waitFor(
                function () {
                    return page.evaluate(function () {
                        return $('body').hasClass('promise-executed');
                    }) > 0;
                },
                function () {
                    page.render('page.png');
                    phantom.exit();
                }, 10000);
        }
    });
}

Basically, waitFor will check every 500 ms if body has a class named 'promise-executed'.