how to ensure request is done sequentially?

Question

I'd like to request one page after another, the following code seems request all the pages in the same time, is there a way to fetch one page after the previous one is done? thanks

var Promise = require("bluebird");
var request = Promise.promisifyAll(require('request'));
var URLS = ["http://sample.com/j1", "http://sample.com/j2"]

Promise.map(URLS, function (item) {
    return request.postAsync({url: item}).spread(function (response,body) {
    var items = JSON.parse(body)
    return items
})
}).then(function (r) {
    console.log(r.length)
})

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 18 '15 at 11:20

You can set the concurrency level, which is specific to bluebird.

Promise.map(URLS, function (item) {
    return request.postAsync({url: item}).spread(function (response,body) {
    var items = JSON.parse(body)
    return items
}, { concurrency: 1})

This will issue all the promises one at a time.

how to ensure request is done sequentially?

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