Make using Dojo Event with Dojo Storage more elegant

[bradneuberg]

Right now, if you use Dojo Event with Dojo Storage to know when the storage subsystem is loaded, you have to do an ugly block like this:

if(dojo.storage.manager.isInitialized() == false){

dojo.event.connect(dojo.storage.manager,

"loaded", Moxie, Moxie.initialize);

}else{

dojo.event.connect(dojo, "loaded",

Moxie, Moxie.initialize);

}

Thats just ugly boilerplate; I'd like to make it just be:

dojo.event.connect(dojo.storage.manager,

"loaded", Moxie, Moxie.initialize);

However, here's the problem; if we reach that dojo.event.connect and the storage system is already initialized, then Moxie.initialize never gets called! We need to find a way to have that "loaded" event fired even after we have been loaded if someone is adding a listener afterwards. Not sure how to do this in dojo.event.

Making this cleaner will eliminate a common source of bugs for people using Dojo Storage and make their code cleaner.

[liucougar]

have a look at deferred

that may be what you need

[BradNeuberg]

I'm going to close this since its been open forever as a note to myself, like a todo list item. Marking as WONTFIX for now.