From: jaubourg <j@ubourg.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 03:13:44 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Introduced a new promise method on deferreds that returns an immutable object (exposi... 
X-Git-Tag: 1.5b1~51
X-Git-Url: https://source.dussan.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6dbffb8596a9c96c68386ecc2d95da25b9dee369;p=jquery.git

Introduced a new promise method on deferreds that returns an immutable object (exposing then, fail, isResolved, isRejected and promise itself only). Remove $.isDeferred and moved logic directly into $.when. Made sure $.when returns a promise by using promise(). Used promise() in ajax code too.
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diff --git a/src/ajax.js b/src/ajax.js
index 19ec83679..0fca962aa 100644
--- a/src/ajax.js
+++ b/src/ajax.js
@@ -489,9 +489,10 @@ jQuery.extend({
 			}
 		}
 		
-		// Attach deferreds	
-		jXHR.success = jXHR.then = deferred.then;
-		jXHR.error = jXHR.fail = deferred.fail;
+		// Attach deferreds
+		deferred.promise( jXHR );
+		jXHR.success = jXHR.then;
+		jXHR.error = jXHR.fail;
 		jXHR.complete = completeDeferred.then;
 
 		// Remove hash character (#7531: and string promotion)
diff --git a/src/core.js b/src/core.js
index 67429f779..3bbdce3c6 100644
--- a/src/core.js
+++ b/src/core.js
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ var jQuery = function( selector, context ) {
 	class2type = {},
 	
 	// Marker for deferred
-	deferredMarker = [];
+	promiseMarker = [];
 
 jQuery.fn = jQuery.prototype = {
 	init: function( selector, context ) {
@@ -896,9 +896,6 @@ jQuery.extend({
 				}
 			};
 		
-		// Add the deferred marker
-		deferred.then._ = deferredMarker;
-		
 		return deferred;
 	},
 	
@@ -916,7 +913,16 @@ jQuery.extend({
 				fail: errorDeferred.then,
 				fireReject: errorDeferred.fire,
 				reject: errorDeferred.resolve,
-				isRejected: errorDeferred.isResolved
+				isRejected: errorDeferred.isResolved,
+				// Get a promise for this deferred
+				// If obj is provided, the promise aspect is added to the object
+				promise: function( obj ) {
+					obj = obj || {};
+					for ( var i in { then:1 , fail:1 , isResolved:1 , isRejected:1 , promise:1 } ) {
+						obj[ i ] = deferred[ i ];
+					}
+					return obj;
+				}
 
 		} );
 		
@@ -924,6 +930,9 @@ jQuery.extend({
 		delete deferred.cancel;
 		delete deferred.isCancelled;
 		
+		// Add promise marker
+		deferred.promise._ = promiseMarker;
+		
 		// Make sure only one callback list will be used
 		deferred.then( errorDeferred.cancel ).fail( successCancel );
 		
@@ -935,17 +944,12 @@ jQuery.extend({
 		return deferred;
 	},
 
-	// Check if an object is a deferred
-	isDeferred: function( object ) {
-		return !!( object && object.then && object.then._ === deferredMarker );
-	},
-	
 	// Deferred helper
 	when: function( object ) {
-		object = jQuery.isDeferred( object ) ?
+		object = object && object.promise && object.promise._ === promiseMarker ?
 			object :
 			jQuery.Deferred().resolve( object );
-		return object;
+		return object.promise();
 	},
 
 	// Use of jQuery.browser is frowned upon.
@@ -966,9 +970,7 @@ jQuery.extend({
 });
 
 // Create readyList deferred
-// also force $.fn.ready to be recognized as a defer
 readyList = jQuery._Deferred();
-jQuery.fn.ready._ = deferredMarker;
 
 // Populate the class2type map
 jQuery.each("Boolean Number String Function Array Date RegExp Object".split(" "), function(i, name) {
diff --git a/test/unit/core.js b/test/unit/core.js
index e0938b68a..1cd41a675 100644
--- a/test/unit/core.js
+++ b/test/unit/core.js
@@ -1022,42 +1022,38 @@ test("jQuery.Deferred()", function() {
 	});
 });
 	
-test("jQuery.isDeferred()", function() {
+test("jQuery.when()", function() {
 	
-	expect( 10 );
+	expect( 14 );
 	
-	var object1 = { then: function() { return this; } },
-		object2 = { then: function() { return this; } };
+	var fakeDeferred = { then: function() { return this; } };
 		
-	object2.then._ = [];
-	
-	// The use case that we want to match
-	ok(jQuery.isDeferred(jQuery._Deferred()), "Simple deferred");
-	ok(jQuery.isDeferred(jQuery.Deferred()), "Failable deferred");
+	fakeDeferred.then._ = [];
 	
 	// Some other objects
-	ok(!jQuery.isDeferred(object1), "Object with then & no marker");
-	ok(!jQuery.isDeferred(object2), "Object with then & marker");
-	
-	// Not objects shouldn't be matched
-	ok(!jQuery.isDeferred(""), "string");
-	ok(!jQuery.isDeferred(0) && !jQuery.isDeferred(1), "number");
-	ok(!jQuery.isDeferred(true) && !jQuery.isDeferred(false), "boolean");
-	ok(!jQuery.isDeferred(null), "null");
-	ok(!jQuery.isDeferred(undefined), "undefined");
-	
-	object1 = {custom: jQuery._Deferred().then};
-	
-	ok(!jQuery.isDeferred(object1) , "custom method name not found automagically");
-});
-
-test("jQuery.when()", function() {
+	jQuery.each( {
+		
+		"Object with then & no marker": { then: jQuery.noop },
+		"Object with then & marker": fakeDeferred,
+		"string 1/2": "",
+		"string 2/2": "some string",
+		"number 1/2": 0,
+		"number 2/2": 1,
+		"boolean 1/2": true,
+		"boolean 2/2": false,
+		"null": null,
+		"undefined": undefined,
+		"custom method name not found automagically": {custom: jQuery._Deferred().then}
 	
-	expect( 2 );
+	} , function( message , value ) {
+		
+		notStrictEqual( jQuery.when( value ) , value , message );
+		
+	} );
 	
 	var cache, i;
 	
-	for( i = 1 ; i < 3 ; i++ ) {
+	for( i = 1 ; i < 4 ; i++ ) {
 		jQuery.when( cache || jQuery.Deferred( function() {
 			this.resolve( i );
 		}) ).then( function( value ) {