<script> for Firefox add-ons. Q can now be used in any environment that provides window or self globals, favoring window since add-ons have an an immutable self that is distinct from window.noConflict support for use in <script> (@jahnjw).<script> usage outright. #607Q_DEBUG=1.tap method to promises, which will see a value pass through without alteration.code === ETIMEDOUT (Kornel Lesiński)^ version predicate operator in any transitive dependency.Q.nextTick.Q.Promise, which implements common usage of the ES6 Promise constructor and its methods. Promise does not have a valid promise constructor and a proper implementation awaits version 2 of Q.StopIteration global to distinguish SpiderMonkey generators from ES6 generators, assuming that they will never coexist.:cake: This is all but a re-release of version 0.9, which has settled into a gentle maintenance mode and rightly deserves an official 1.0. An ambitious 2.0 release is already around the corner, but 0.9/1.0 have been distributed far and wide and demand long term support.
promise.valueOf. The function is called by the browser in various ways so there is no way to distinguish usage that should be migrated from usage that cannot be altered.q.min.js is no longer checked-in. It is however still created by Grunt and NPM.Q.async with implementations of the new ES6 generators.nextTick affecting Safari 6.0.5 the first time a page loads when an iframe is involved.passByCopy, join, and race.Error objects.Q.all now propagates progress notifications of the form you might expect of ES6 iterations, {value, index} where the value is the progress notification from the promise at index.nextTick to use an unrolled microtask within Q regardless of how new ticks a requested. #316 @rkaticinspect for getting the state of a promise as {state: "fulfilled" | "rejected" | "pending", value | reason}.allSettled which produces an array of promises states for the input promises once they have all “settled”. This is in accordance with a discussion on Promises/A+ that “settled” refers to a promise that is “fulfilled” or “rejected”. “resolved” refers to a deferred promise that has been “resolved” to another promise, “sealing its fate” to the fate of the successor promise.Q.longStackSupport to true to enable long stack traces.spawn for an immediately invoked asychronous generator. @jlongstermapply, mcall, nmapply, nmcall for method invocation.isPromise and isPromiseAlike now always returns a boolean (even for falsy values). #284 @lfac-ptasync #288 @andywingostopUnhandledRejectionTracking, getUnhandledReasons, resetUnhandledRejections.Q.timeout's errors a custom error message. #270 @jgrenonprocess.nextTick to setImmediate. #254 #259process global without a nextTick property. #267Q.promise throw early if given a non-function.timeout. #229 @omaresdelay.nbind to actually bind the thisArg. #232 @davidpadburynamespace option. #225 @terinjokesvalueOf, and thus from isFulfilled, isRejected, and isPending. #226 @benjamnThis release removes many layers of deprecated methods and brings Q closer to alignment with Mark Miller’s TC39 strawman for concurrency. At the same time, it fixes many bugs and adds a few features around error handling. Finally, it comes with an updated and comprehensive API Reference.
The following deprecated or undocumented methods have been removed. Their replacements are listed here:
(*) Use of thisp is discouraged. For calling methods, use post or invoke.
Q(value) function, an alias for resolve. Q.call, Q.apply, and Q.bind were removed to make room for the same methods on the function prototype.invoke has been aliased to send in all its forms.post with no method name acts like fapply.Q.stackJumpLimit to zero. In the future, this property will be used to fine tune how many stack jumps are retained in long stack traces; for now, anything nonzero is treated as one (since Q only tracks one stack jump at the moment, see #144). #168delete and set (née put) no longer have a fulfillment value.thenReject is now included, as a counterpart to thenResolve.nextTick shim is now faster. #195 @rkatic.fbind no longer hard-binds the returned function's this to undefined. #202Q.reject no longer leaks memory. #148npost with no arguments now works. #207allResolved now works with non-Q promises (“thenables”). #179keys behavior is now correct even in browsers without native Object.keys. #192 @rkaticisRejected and the exception property now work correctly if the rejection reason is falsy. #198dispatchPromise(resolve, op, operands) instead of sendPromise(op, resolve, ...operands), which reduces the cases where Q needs to do argument slicing.Q.fulfill has been added. It is distinct from Q.resolve in that it does not pass promises through, nor coerces promises from other systems. The promise becomes the fulfillment value. This is only recommended for use when trying to fulfill a promise with an object that has a then function that is at the same time not a promise.Q.isFulfilled; this lets Q.all work on arrays containing foreign promises. #154nfcall, nfapply, and nfbind as thisp-less versions of ncall, napply, and nbind. The latter are now deprecated. #142error.stack in a rejection handler will now give a long stack trace. #103Q.timeout to clear its timeout handle when the promise is rejected; previously, it kept the event loop alive until the timeout period expired. #145 @dfilatovq/queue module, which exports an infinite promise queue constructor.done as a replacement for end, taking the usual fulfillment, rejection, and progress handlers. It's essentially equivalent to then(f, r, p).end().Q.onerror, a settable error trap that you can use to get full stack traces for uncaught errors. #94thenResolve as a shortcut for returning a constant value once a promise is fulfilled. #108 @ForbesLindesaynend to nodeify. It no longer returns an always-fulfilled promise when a Node callback is passed.deferred.resolve and deferred.reject no longer (sometimes) return deferred.promise.end twice. #116 #121 @ef4ninvoke and npost to work on promises for objects with Node methods. #134valueOf methods, like Dates, by the promise's valueOf method. #135spread not calling the passed rejection handler if given a rejected promise.nendpromise.then(onFulfilled, onRejected, onProgress), promise.progress(onProgress), and deferred.notify(...progressData).put and del return the object acted upon for easier chaining. #84npost and ninvoke to pass the correct thisp. #74Q.all for arrays contain already-resolved promises or scalar values. @ForbesLindesay.npmignore file so that dependent packages get a slimmer node_modules directory.fapply, fcall, fbind for non-thisp promised function calls.return for async generators, where generators are implemented.promise.timeout is now rejected with an Error object and the message now includes the duration of the timeout in miliseconds. This doesn't constitute (in my opinion) a backward-incompatibility since it is a change of an undocumented and unspecified public behavior, but if you happened to depend on the exception being a string, you will need to revise your code.deferred.makeNodeResolver() to replace the more cryptic deferred.node() method.Q.promise(maker(resolve, reject)) to make a promise inside a callback, such that thrown exceptions in the callback are converted and the resolver and rejecter are arguments. This is a shorthand for making a deferred directly and inspired by @gozala’s stream constructor pattern and the Microsoft Windows Metro Promise constructor interface.Q.begin() that is intended to kick off chains of .then so that each of these can be reordered without having to edit the new and former first step.isFulfilled, isRejected, and isResolved to the promise prototype.allResolved for waiting for every promise to either be fulfilled or rejected, without propagating an error. @utvara #53Q.bind as a method to transform functions that return and throw into promise-returning functions. See an example. @domenicnode export to nbind, and added napply to complete the set. node remains as deprecated. @domenic #58Method export to sender. Method remains as deprecated and will be removed in the next major version since I expect it has very little usage.msSetImmediate (IE10) or setImmediate (available via polyfill) as a browser-side nextTick implementation. #44 #50 #59process.nextTick.finally alias for fin, catch alias for fail, try alias for call, and delete alias for del. These properties are enquoted in the library for cross-browser compatibility, but may be used as property names in modern engines.ref in favor of resolve as recommended by @domenic.Q.all([]) #32 @domenicenqueue removed. Use nextTick instead. This is more consistent with NodeJS and (subjectively) more explicit and intuitive.def removed. Use master instead. The term def was too confusing to new users.spy removed in favor of fin.wait removed. Do all(args).get(0) instead.join removed. Do all(args).spread(callback) instead.Q function module.exports alias for Q.ref. It conflicts with Q.apply in weird ways, making it uncallable.delay so that it accepts both (value, timeout) and (timeout) variations based on arguments length.ref().spread(cb(...args)), a variant of then that spreads an array across multiple arguments. Useful with all().defer().node() Node callback generator. The callback accepts (error, value) or (error, ...values). For multiple value arguments, the fulfillment value is an array, useful in conjunction with spread.node and ncall, both with the signature (fun, thisp_opt, ...args). The former is a decorator and the latter calls immediately. node optional binds and partially applies. ncall can bind and pass arguments.Array.prototype.reduce. The enumerable property has bad side-effects. Libraries that depend on this (for example, QQ) will need to be revised.report and asapcallback argument of the fin function no longer receives any arguments. Thus, it can be used to call functions that should not receive arguments on resolution. Use when, then, or fail if you need a value.MessageChannel for nextTick.enqueue to nextTick.view and viewInfo for creating views of promises either when or before they're fulfilled.spy and the name fin were useful. I've removed the old fin implementation and renamed/aliased spy.ref function as a “Q” constructor, with module systems that support exports assignment including NodeJS, RequireJS, and when used as a <script> tag. Notably, strictly compliant CommonJS does not support this, but UncommonJS does.async decorator for generators that use yield to “trampoline” promises. In engines that support generators (SpiderMonkey), this will greatly reduce the need for nested callbacks.when chainable.all chainable.all and refactored join and wait to use it. All of these will now reject at the earliest rejection.spy; now waits for resolution of callback promise.join, wait, and report into Q API methods.apply and call to the Q API, and apply as a promise handler.fail, fin, and spy to Q and the promise prototype for convenience when observing rejection, fulfillment and rejection, or just observing without affecting the resolution.def (although def remains shimmed until the next major release) to master.MessageChannel for next tick task enqueue in browsers that support it.error from the API. Since exceptions are getting consumed, throwing them in an errback causes the exception to silently disappear. Use end.end as both an API method and a promise-chain ending method. It causes propagated rejections to be thrown, which allows Node to write stack traces and emit uncaughtException events, and browsers to likewise emit onerror and log to the console.join and wait as promise chain functions, so you can wait for variadic promises, returning your own promise back, or join variadic promises, resolving with a callback that receives variadic fulfillment values.end no longer returns a promise. It is the end of the promise chain.when callbacks and errbacks. These must be explicitly reported through .end(), .then(null, Q.error), or some other mechanism.report as an API method, which can be used as an errback to report and propagate an error.report as a promise-chain method, so an error can be reported if it passes such a gate.<script> support that regressed with 0.4.2 because of “use strict” in the module system multi-plexer.post method has been reverted to its original signature, as provided in Tyler Close's ref_send API. That is, post accepts two arguments, the second of which is an arbitrary object, but usually invocation arguments as an Array. To provide variadic arguments to post, there is a new invoke function that posts the variadic arguments to the value given in the first argument.defined method has been moved from q to q/util since it gets no use in practice but is still theoretically useful.Promise constructor has been renamed to makePromise to be consistent with the convention that functions that do not require the new keyword to be used as constructors have camelCase names.isResolved function has been renamed to isFulfilled. There is a new isResolved function that indicates whether a value is not a promise or, if it is a promise, whether it has been either fulfilled or rejected. The code has been revised to reflect this nuance in terminology.join to "q/util" for variadically joining multiple promises.invoke method has been added, to replace post, since post will become backward- incompatible in the next major release.when call are now emitted to Node's "uncaughtException" process event in addition to being returned as a rejection reason.when call are now consumed, warned, and transformed into rejections of the promise returned by when.deep method on dates and other primitives. Github issue #11.makePromise, to replace the Promise function eventually.makePromise API such that the fallback method no longer receives a superfluous resolved method after the operator. The fallback method is responsible only for returning a resolution. This breaks an undocumented API, so third-party API's depending on the previous undocumented behavior may break.promiseSend(op, resolved, ...) method and valueOf”.ref that prevented del messages from being received (gozala)keys message to promises and to the promise API.q/queue and q/util.q/queue.resolve and reject methods of defer objects now return the resolution promise for convenience.q/util, which provides step, delay, shallow, deep, and three reduction orders.q/queue module for a promise Queue.q-comm to the list of compatible libraries.defined from q, with intent to move it to q/util.