element-web/src/actions/actionCreators.js

/*
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/**
 * Create an asynchronous action creator that will dispatch actions indicating
 * the current status of the promise returned by fn.
 * @param {string} id the id to give the dispatched actions. This is given a
 *                    suffix determining whether it is pending, successful or
 *                    a failure.
 * @param {function} fn a function that returns a Promise.
 * @returns {function} an asynchronous action creator - a function that uses
 *                     its single argument as a dispatch function.
 */
export function asyncAction(id, fn) {
    return (dispatch) => {
        dispatch({action: id + '.pending'});
        fn().then((result) => {
            dispatch({action: id + '.success', result});
        }).catch((err) => {
            dispatch({action: id + '.failure', err});
        });
    };
}