Getting all folders for a bookmark

[Asad Dhamani]

Hi.

I'm working on a Chrome extension, and I need to use the bookmarks API to get the folder structure for a bookmark. I'm able to get the first folder like so:

    chrome.bookmarks.get(bookmark, function(results) {
        ParentNode = results[0];
        console.log(ParentNode.title);
    });

However, I need to be able to get all the enclosing folders. An ugly way of doing that would be this:

chrome.bookmarks.get(bookmark, function(results) {



            ParentNode = results[0];

        console.log(ParentNode.title);

        chrome.bookmarks.get(ParentNode.parentId, function(results) {

            ParentNode = results[0];

            console.log(ParentNode.title);

            chrome.bookmarks.get(ParentNode.parentId, function(results) {

                ParentNode = results[0];

                console.log(ParentNode.title);

                chrome.bookmarks.get(ParentNode.parentId, function(results) {

                    ParentNode = results[0];

                    console.log(ParentNode.title);

                });

            });

        });

 

    });

But that wouldn't really work. I've tried a while loop:

var ParentNode;
function getTags(bookmark) {
    chrome.bookmarks.get(bookmark, function(results) {
        ParentNode = results[0];
        while (ParentNode.parentId !== "undefined") {
            chrome.bookmarks.get(ParentNode.parentId, function(result) {
                ParentNode = result[0];
                console.log(ParentNode.title);
            });
        }
    });
}

However, for some reason, the loop keeps going on and crashes my browser. What would be an easy/efficient way to get the entire folder hierarchy for a bookmark? 

Thanks.

[Reilly Grant]

Callbacks are asynchronous. ParentNode is not modified by your loop and so it runs indefinitely. The callback passed to chrome.bookmarks.get will only get a chance to run once the loop completes and control passes back to the JavaScript event loop which never happens.

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[Asad Dhamani]

Alright, that makes sense, thanks.

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