CoffeeManiac you could either use a promises to synchronize your async
issues
(https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=q%20promise)
or you could move phantom.create down into the module and call _page.open
inside the _ph.createPage callback (or some abstraction of the same).
On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 10:50:18 AM UTC-4, CoffeeManiac wrote:
>
> Right but I do not know how to resolve this. How can I get this to work?
>
>
>
> On Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 4:16:37 PM UTC-5, Zach Rollyson wrote:
>>
>> Initial assumption would be that _page gets defined in a callback within
>> a callback and _page.open gets called in a different callback so all that
>> is asynchronous and there could be no guarantee that _page is defined by
>> the time _page.open is called.
>>
>> On Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 4:39:36 PM UTC-4, CoffeeManiac wrote:
>>>
>>> I can't figure out why I lose the object instance for my variable _page
>>> once it gets inside the function for the module.exports. It bombs out here
>>> because _page is undefined but it's fine and has an instance BEFORE this
>>> _page.open
>>>
>>> var phantom = require('phantom'), _ph, _page;
>>> var should = require('chai').should();
>>>
>>> phantom.create("--web-security=no", "--ignore-ssl-errors=yes", { port:
>>> 12345 }, function (ph) {
>>> console.log("Phantom Bridge Initiated");
>>> _ph = ph;
>>>
>>> _ph.createPage(function(page) {
>>> console.log("Page created!");
>>> _page = page;
>>> });
>>>
>>> phaçntom.exit();
>>> });
>>>
>>>
>>> module.exports = function() {
>>> "use strict";
>>>
>>> this.Given(/^I visit the episodes display page$/, function (callback) {
>>>
>>> console.log("_page: " + _page);
>>> _page.open("/", function(status){
>>>
>>> status.should.equal("success");
>>> });
>>>
>>> callback();
>>>
>>> });
>>>
>>>
>>> this.Then(/^I should not see any episodes listed$/, function (callback)
>>> {
>>> //page.should.have.content("There are no episodes available");
>>>
>>> callback.pending();
>>> });
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> this.Given(/^there are some episodes to view$/, function (callback) {
>>> // Write code here that turns the phrase above into concrete actions
>>> callback.pending();
>>> });
>>>
>>> this.When(/^I go to the episodes display page$/, function (callback) {
>>> // Write code here that turns the phrase above into concrete actions
>>> callback.pending();
>>> });
>>>
>>> this.Then(/^I should see a list of episodes grouped by Topic$/,
>>> function (callback) {
>>> // Write code here that turns the phrase above into concrete actions
>>> callback.pending();
>>> });
>>>
>>>
>>> };
>>>
>>>
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