Failing to convert a callback queue to use promise

Question

I've been using promises + async/await for some time now, I thought I was comfortable with them, but this situation really has me stumped. Any advice/guidance is greatly appreciated!

Context: My app is making URI requests, but I have to delay each request by a couple seconds. To make the delay more exact, I set up a queue for making the requests. No problem using callbacks, but I've been at it for a while, and I can't seem to wrap my head around how to pull it off using promises.

Sandboxed the callback code below:

const queue = []
let t;

function addToQueue(params, cb) {
    queue.push({params,cb})
    _run()
}
function _run() {
    if (!t && queue.length) {
        const {params,cb} = queue.shift()
        _dummyFetch(params).then( data => cb(data) )
        _startTimer()
    }
}
function _startTimer() {
    t = setTimeout( _endTimer, 2000 )
}
function _endTimer() {
    t = null
    _run()
}
async function _dummyFetch() {}

Sandbox debug:

function seconds() { return Math.round(new Date().getTime()/1000) }
function log(t) { console.log(t + " " + seconds()) }
function logFn(t) { return () => log(t) }

log("init")
addToQueue({}, logFn("request 1")) // should be close/same as init time
addToQueue({}, logFn("request 2"))
addToQueue({}, logFn("request 3"))


// If I could figure out how to make it a promise:
// addToQueue( ... ).then( data => ... )

Answer 1

Create a new Promise in the addToQueue function and put the resolver function on the queue. Then later resolve the promise with the fetch result:

function addToQueue(params) {
    return new Promise(resolve => {
        queue.push({params, resolve})
        _run()
    })
}
function _run() {
    if (!t && queue.length) {
        const {params, resolve} = queue.shift()
        resolve(_dummyFetch(params))
        _startTimer()
    }
}

---

Alternatively, you can promisify the entire queue code, and use a promise as the queue itself.

const queue = Promise.resolve();

function addToQueue(params) {
    const result = queue.then(() => _dummyFetch(params));
    queue = queue.then(timer);
    return result;
}
function timer() {
    return new Promise(resolve => {
        setTimeout(resolve, 2000);
    });
}
async function _dummyFetch() {}

You could even make the queue wait for the fetch if it takes longer than 2s, so that two requests never run concurrently, by simply changing

queue = Promise.all([result, queue.then(timer)]).then(res => void res, err => void err);