Can promises have multiple arguments to onFulfille

Question

I'm following the spec here and I'm not sure whether it allows onFulfilled to be called with multiple arguments. For example:

promise = new Promise(function(onFulfilled, onRejected){
    onFulfilled('arg1', 'arg2');
})

such that my code:

promise.then(function(arg1, arg2){
    // ....
});

would receive both arg1 and arg2?

I don't care about how any specific promises implementation does it, I wish to follow the w3c spec for promises closely.

Answer 1

You can use E6 destructuring:

Object destructuring:

promise = new Promise(function(onFulfilled, onRejected){
    onFulfilled({arg1: value1, arg2: value2});
})

promise.then(({arg1, arg2}) => {
    // ....
});

Array destructuring:

promise = new Promise(function(onFulfilled, onRejected){
    onFulfilled([value1, value2]);
})

promise.then(([arg1, arg2]) => {
    // ....
});

Answer 2

I am looking for the same solution and found seomething very intersting from this answer: Rejecting promises with multiple arguments (like $http) in AngularJS

the answer of this guy Florian

promise = deferred.promise

promise.success = (fn) ->
  promise.then (data) ->
   fn(data.payload, data.status, {additional: 42})
  return promise

promise.error = (fn) ->
  promise.then null, (err) ->
    fn(err)
  return promise

return promise 

And to use it:

service.get().success (arg1, arg2, arg3) ->
    # => arg1 is data.payload, arg2 is data.status, arg3 is the additional object
service.get().error (err) ->
    # => err

Answer 3

Great question, and great answer by Benjamin, Kris, et al - many thanks!

I'm using this in a project and have created a module based on Benjamin Gruenwald's code. It's available on npmjs:

npm i -S promise-spread

Then in your code, do

require('promise-spread');

If you're using a library such as any-promise

var Promise = require('any-promise');
require('promise-spread')(Promise);

Maybe others find this useful, too!

Answer 4

The fulfillment value of a promise parallels the return value of a function and the rejection reason of a promise parallels the thrown exception of a function. Functions cannot return multiple values so promises must not have more than 1 fulfillment value.

Answer 5

To quote the article below, ""then" takes two arguments, a callback for a success case, and another for the failure case. Both are optional, so you can add a callback for the success or failure case only."

I usually look to this page for any basic promise questions, let me know if I am wrong

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/es6/promises/

Answer 6

As far as I can tell reading the ES6 Promise specification and the standard promise specification theres no clause preventing an implementation from handling this case - however its not implemented in the following libraries:

• RSVP.promise (#L516-544)
• Q promise (#787)

I assume the reason for them omiting multi arg resolves is to make changing order more succinct (i.e. as you can only return one value in a function it would make the control flow less intuitive) Example:

new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
   return resolve(5, 4);
})
.then(function(x,y) {
   console.log(y);
   return x; //we can only return 1 value here so the next then will only have 1 argument
})
.then(function(x,y) {
    console.log(y);
});