Using waitfor from stratified in AngularJS - angularjs

Question

I'm using the StratifiedJS library's waitFor construct.
function myFunction() {
// some declarations
waitfor() {
AsyncService.getThisDone().then(function(result) {
// some more calculation
resume();
});
}
}
I am getting unexpected '{' on the line where waitfor is used as I cannot enclose the above code in <script type="text/sjs"> tag.
How can I get this working in AngularJS

Answer 1

The library you linked says you need to include this on the main page:
<script type="text/sjs">
// Your SJS code here!
</script>
Make sure you've labelled it that way. Most javascript is labelled as "text/javascript" (or has no label at all, in which case the <script> tag implies javascript.
The code you posted runs fine when typed in the command-line-like eval tool they have on the StratifiedJS page - likely there is nothing wrong with the code itself, just the way it's loaded.

Answer 2

As #blgt said, you need to put the SJS code inside an appropriate <script type="text/sjs"> tag (since most StratifiedJS code is not valid JavaScript).
In order to access SJS functions from plain JS frameworks like SJS, you could attach them to some well known object, e.g:
<script type="text/sjs">
window.myFunction = function() {
waitfor() {
AsyncService.getThisDone().then(function(result) {
// some more calculation
resume();
});
}
}
</script>
You can then call window.myFunction from any JS code. In real code you'd probably pick a more unique name ;)
Note: it's impossible to actually wait for the execution of a suspending StratifiedJS function like this if you call it from JS. So if you're calling StratifiedJS functions from JS, generally they should be fire-and-forget (i.e functions which are only executed for their side-effects, rather than functions which return a result).
This blog post has some details about integrating AngularJS and StratifiedJS, which may clarify the relation between them:
http://onilabs.com/blog/megazine

Answer 3

The short version is that your JavaScript syntax is invalid.
The medium version is that
functionCall() {
// stuff here
}
...is invalid. You'd need a ; after functionCall(), and if you had one, the block following it would have no purpose.
Given that your linked documentation suggests that it is valid, there must be some pre-processing step that turns the code described into valid JavaScript that you've skipped. So your code is being processed as normal JavaScript, in which this construct is not valid.
The solution is to ensure that this code is pre-processed and/or run in the right environment (I think it's by their Conductance server).