How to do repeated requests until one succeeds without blocking in node?

Question

I have a function that takes a parameter and a callback. It\'s supposed to do a request to a remote API and get some info based on the parameter. When it gets the info, it needs

Answer 1

Is this what you are trying to do?

var history = {};

function sendRequest(options, callback) {
    var req = https.request(options, function (res) {
        var acc = "";
        res.on("data", function (msg) {
            acc += msg.toString("utf-8");
        });
        res.on("end", function () {
            history = JSON.parse(acc);
            if (history.success) {
                callback(history);
            }
            else {
                sendRequest(options, callback);
            }
        });
    });
    req.end();
}

sendRequest(options, callback);