Agreed, sometimes a yes or no question is answered by an error or success in a 
callback in node. You don't see this in blocking systems as much because 
try/catch is cumbersome but it's fairly common in node.

On Feb 25, 2013, at February 25, 201311:51 AM, Glenn Block 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> "Normally you don't want go further when error is happened."
> 
> In this case it is acceptable to continue processing as long as you capture 
> the received errors. If there were a high amt of failures you "might" 
> consider cancelling though.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Oleg Slobodskoi <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> I wrote this to handle such stuff:
> 
> https://github.com/kof/do
> 
> 
> Possibly I have to add a complete callback for the case one want to when it 
> is finished and than get the array of errors.
> 
> Normally you don't want go further when error is happened.
> 
> 
> Am 25.02.2013 um 10:57 schrieb Glenn Block <[email protected]>:
> 
>> Hello all
>> 
>> Let's assume you have an API that results in a batch of HTTP calls which 
>> fire async and which are not sequential. A constraint of the API is that any 
>> errors that occur during the calls need to get returned to the user.
>> 
>> How have you customarily designed this?
>> 
>> One idea was something like the following
>> 
>> function send(message, callback) {
>> }
>> 
>> where callback is function(error, results) {
>> }
>> 
>> In this case error if not null is a JSON object with a collection of child 
>> objects with the errors.
>> 
>> An alternative idea I had was to have an additional completion callback per 
>> item.
>> 
>> so:
>> 
>> function send(message, completionCallback, itemCallback) {
>> }
>> 
>> This introduces a callback for each item that is processed. In this case the 
>> completion callback has a single error if ANY errors occur while the   
>> itemCallback has individual errors as they occur.
>> 
>> This is useful for cases where you might want to stop further processing if 
>> the number of errors is very high.
>> 
>> Thoughts / Experiences?
>> Glenn 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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