Encapsulating a dataSource.fetch()

[Eric]

Hello Support:

I'm having conceptual difficulties with how to encapsulate a fetch().  Consider the following:

var getAllProjects = function() {
            projectsDataSource.fetch(function()  {
                var dataView = projectsDataSource.view();
                return dataView;
            });
        };

where projectsDataSource is a Kendo dataSource defined with a remote source.  I should say that the inner portion above works flawlessly (by inner portion I mean the part defined as projectsDataSource.fetch(function() { ...}).

However, I decided to encapsulate this functionality in a separate module defined by RequireJS, leading naively to the code above where I declare getAllProjects().

I'm trying to return dataView to the outer function, getAllProjects(), a function that is revealed publicly.  All I get back, though, is undefined.  It would seem that you're using callbacks, not promises, which appears to be confusing me.

What am I missing here?

Thank you.

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi,

 The fetch method accepts a function which is invoked when the data source finishes loading data. Also the fetch method doesn't return a value. I am afraid that your code isn't going to work like this. You need to take into account that fetch is asynchronous.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
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