Problems with Async in FireFox?

[Kelly St. John]

Has anyone been running into problems using polymer's `async` in FireFox?

I've posted the issue I'm running into on Stack Overflow for your reference:  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27368519/polymer-async-not-working-in-firefox

[Ian MacLeod]

Hmm, the current behavior for async (without a timeout) is to just call requestAnimationFrame. Should be getting called

However, in your stack overflow post, where are you defining the namespace variable?

On Mon Dec 08 2014 at 2:58:50 PM Kelly St. John <ke...@qfin.net> wrote:

Has anyone been running into problems using polymer's `async` in FireFox?

I've posted the issue I'm running into on Stack Overflow for your reference:  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27368519/polymer-async-not-working-in-firefox

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[Kelly St. John]

Hello Ian.  The javascript namespace is defined only as a best practice to manage local storage variables in an encapsulated fashion.  It is defined in an external js file loaded by index.html.  I've done some further testing and it appears 'populateLocalStorage' is in fact being called, but not asynchronously in FireFox.  It is being called before the datasource elements have received their ajax responses and handled them accordingly.  I'll restate that this is working as is in Chrome, but not in Firefox version 33.1.1 or 34.0.5.

Cheers

Kelly

[Kelly St. John]

ps:  To add further clarity, 'this.bugs' and 'this.snakes' are variables bound to exposed attributes of the snakesDS and bugsDS (i.e. custom polymer datasource elements).  The datasource elements are returning those values appropriately following processing the expected responses from core-ajax, the problem here is the timing of the call to 'populateLocalStorage' function in Firefox.

[Kelly St. John]

pps:  I have updated the stack overflow description to reflect that the function is in fact being called, just not asynchronously in Firefox as one would expect (and as it is handled in Chrome).

[Kelly St. John]

Has anyone run into these same issues with async calls on Firefox?  Am I in fact using async correctly in the example shown on SO?

Kelly  

[Kelly St. John]

See updated SO thread for the solution to this issue:  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27368519/polymer-async-not-working-in-firefox