Create a custom callback in JavaScript

Question

All I need to do is to execute a callback function when my current function execution ends.

function LoadData() 
{
    alert(\'The data has been loaded\');
          


        

Answer 1

My 2 cent. Same but different...

<script>
    dosomething("blaha", function(){
        alert("Yay just like jQuery callbacks!");
    });


    function dosomething(damsg, callback){
        alert(damsg);
        if(typeof callback == "function") 
        callback();
    }
</script>

Answer 2

If you want to execute a function when something is done. One of a good solution is to listen to events. For example, I'll implement a Dispatcher, a DispatcherEvent class with ES6,then:

let Notification = new Dispatcher()
Notification.on('Load data success', loadSuccessCallback)

const loadSuccessCallback = (data) =>{
   ...
}
//trigger a event whenever you got data by
Notification.dispatch('Load data success')

Dispatcher:

class Dispatcher{
  constructor(){
    this.events = {}
  }

  dispatch(eventName, data){
    const event = this.events[eventName]
    if(event){
      event.fire(data)
    }
  }

  //start listen event
  on(eventName, callback){
    let event = this.events[eventName]
    if(!event){
      event = new DispatcherEvent(eventName)
      this.events[eventName] = event
    }
    event.registerCallback(callback)
  }

  //stop listen event
  off(eventName, callback){
    const event = this.events[eventName]
    if(event){
      delete this.events[eventName]
    }
  }
}

DispatcherEvent:

class DispatcherEvent{
  constructor(eventName){
    this.eventName = eventName
    this.callbacks = []
  }

  registerCallback(callback){
    this.callbacks.push(callback)
  }

  fire(data){
    this.callbacks.forEach((callback=>{
      callback(data)
    }))
  }
}

Happy coding!

p/s: My code is missing handle some error exceptions

Answer 3

function LoadData(callback) 
{
    alert('the data have been loaded');
    callback(loadedData, currentObject);
}

Answer 4

Try:

function LoadData (callback)
{
    // ... Process whatever data
    callback (loadedData, currentObject);
}

Functions are first class in JavaScript; you can just pass them around.