Hi i have been trying to do the following.
I have a module in a system i am currently designing which is as follows
var queryDispatcher = {
init: function () {
var g = new Array() ;
var b = new Array() ;
var y = new Array() ;
var total_google = 0 ;
var total_bing = 0 ;
var total_yahoo = 0 ;
return {
callGoogle: function (query) {
var url = 'http://localhost/meta/public/google/'+query ;
$.getJSON(url, function(data) {
total_google = data.searchInformation.totalResults;
var i = 0 ;
$.each(data.items, function() {
var obj = new res(i+1, this.title, this.snippet, this.link, 0) ;
g.push(obj) ;
i=i+1 ;
});
});
return true ;
},
callBing: function (query) {
var url = 'http://localhost/meta/public/bing/'+query ;
$.getJSON(url, function(data) {
total_bing = data.d.results[0].WebTotal;
var j = 0 ;
$.each(data.d.results[0].Web, function() {
var obj = new res(j+1, this.Title, this.Description, this.Url, 0) ;
b.push(obj) ;
j=j+1 ;
});
});
},
callYahoo: function (query) {
var url = 'http://localhost/meta/public/yahoo/'+query ;
$.getJSON(url, function(data) {
total_yahoo = data.bossresponse.web.totalresults;
var k = 0 ;
$.each(data.bossresponse.web.results, function() {
var obj = new res(k+1, this.title, this.abstract, this.url, 0) ;
y.push(obj) ;
k=k+1 ;
});
});
},
getGoogle: function () {
}
}
}
};
Now if for example i instantiate queryDispatcher as follows:
var qd = queryDispatcher.init();
var google = qd.callGoogle("hey there");
I should be able to retrieve the results. Currently the results are being pushed into the array g which is empty initally and because of the async getJSON call, when i try to return g it is always empty.
How can i wait for the async call to be completed so i can return the array g and the total_google variable?