Using put inside anonymous function callback

Question

I am implementing Pusher into my React+Redux Saga application, but I am having a few problems with some callbacks where I can not hit the put(...) methods. Using console.log(...) etc. in the methods does show, but I am not able to put to the state of my application.

I could be wrong on some of the implementation of async/generator functions, but I am pretty much stuck right now.

My code to illustrate what will not fire:

import { takeLatest } from 'redux-saga'
import { call, put } from 'redux-saga/effects'

// Pusher actions
export const pusherConnecting = () => {
    return {
        type: ActionTypes.PUSHER_CONNECTING
    }
};

export const pusherConnectSucceeded = (client) => {
    return {
        type: ActionTypes.PUSHER_CONNECT_SUCCEEDED,
        client: client
    }
};

const pusherConnectFailed = (exception) => {
    return {
        type: ActionTypes.PUSHER_CONNECT_FAILED,
        message: exception
    }
};

// Pusher Saga
function * connectPusher(action) {
    try {
        const pusher = yield call(Api.connectPusher, action.directory, function(subscription) {
            subscription.bind(PUSHER_BIND_RELOAD, function() {
                location.reload(true);
            });

            subscription.bind(PUSHER_BIND_REQUEST_DATA, function(data) {
                if (data) {
                    put(updateDirectory(data));
                } else {
                    put(requestDirectory(action.directory.id));
                }
            });
        });

        pusher.connection.bind('connected', function() {
            put(pusherConnectSucceeded(pusher));
        });

        yield put(pusherConnecting());

    } catch (e) {
        yield put(pusherConnectFailed(e));
    }
}

export default function * pusherSaga() {
    yield * takeLatest(ActionTypes.DIRECTORY_FETCH_SUCCEEDED, connectPusher);
}



// My Api.ConnectPusher
export function * connectPusher(directory, subscription) {
    var pusher = new Pusher(PUSHER_KEY, {
        encrypted: true
    });

    var channels = ["test1", "test2"  ];

    for (var i = 0; i < channels.length; i++) {
        // Take each channel and callback with the subscription
        yield subscription(pusher.subscribe(channels[i]));
    }

    return pusher;
}

Solution based on @Sebastien

yield put(yield onConnect(pusher));

function onConnect(pusher) {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        pusher.connection.bind('connected', function() {
            resolve(pusherConnectSucceeded(pusher));
        });
    });
}

Answer 1

Redux-saga does not permit to put without using keyword yield. The put creates a simple json object/effect that must be interpreted/executed, and it won't if you don't yield.

Also, even with yield put(...), if this is done in a callback, it won't be interpreted, because Redux-saga does not have the ability to run callbacks in its interpreter. They'll simply be run as normal callbacks and nothing will happen.

If subscription.bind is supposed to return a single result, you can instead wrap that call into a function that returns a promise, and then yield that promise.

If subscription.bind is supposed to return a stream of results, you might need instead of create a channel. I guess in the future someone will ship something that can easily permits to transform Observables to Redux-saga streams

Note that if you don't need to unsubscribe/resubscribe multiple times, it may be simpler to you to put this code outside the saga, and just do

        subscription.bind(PUSHER_BIND_RELOAD, function() {
            location.reload(true);
        });

        subscription.bind(PUSHER_BIND_REQUEST_DATA, function(data) {
            if (data) {
                reduxStore.dispatch(updateDirectory(data));
            } else {
                reduxStore.dispatch((requestDirectory(action.directory.id));
            }
        });