How to implement polling of a REST api in Bacon.js?

Question

I've implemented a polling logic checking the status of a RESTful service returning the status of a backend job. I've run into the problem of shutting down the polling and solved it with an "unsubBus". I'm wondering if this could be solved in a better way.

var unsubBus = new Bacon.Bus();
// Poll job status code until it's successful
var succStream = Bacon.interval(pollInterval)
    .takeUntil(unsubBus)
    .flatMapLatest(function (v) { return this.checkStatus(jobId); })
    .filter(function(v) { return v === true; });

// Unsubscribe and do something
succStream.onValue(function (_) { unsubBus.push(true); });
succStream.onValue(function (_) { DO-SOMETHING; });

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 17 '14 at 14:40

You could add .take(1) to the succStream to only take 1 value. The polling stops, as the stream has no more subscribers. Check out this jsfiddle.

// Poll job status code until it's successful
var succStream = Bacon.interval(pollInterval)
    .flatMapLatest(function (v) { return checkStatus(); })
    .filter(function(v) { return v === true; });

succStream.take(1).onValue(function (_) { log("success") });

How to implement polling of a REST api in Bacon.js?

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