Add asynchronous functionallity

I believe this is also proposed before.

Hi Hans,

Thank you for this idea. Can you please explain your wish for an asynchronous process a bit in more detail? And why won't BPT or Timer asynchronous logic serve your purpose? The reason I'm asking this is because I've seen this same request done by other OutSystems Developers before but I'm not still sure it is the exact same idea that you're requesting.

When you say a callback structure in the same fashion as the OnNotify action, would that mean some sort of page event handlers that work asynchronously... so that you wouldn't need to resort to crude Javascript functions and their callback programming (like PrototypeJS XMLHTTPRequest object)? Is that what you're in need of?

Thanks,
Pedro

Hi Pedro,

We had the situation that a mobile screen shows total usage data to the client that were based on 2 REST calls. This data needed to be aggregated and calculated before showing it on screen. Since the REST interface is a given, it would in this case have been handy if we could have called it in the background, doing the calculation stuff and when the results were ready showing them on the screen. I had indeed thought about doing it in javascript but we decided not to do that and in this case just accept the performance penalty. But yes, a kind of callback structure like with JS was what I had in mind :)

Regards,
Hans

Very interesting Hans, Thank you for sharing your scenario. This is indeed great input for consideration, if not immediately in the product at least as a framework component that could be shared in the Forge. I'll keep dropping by if I get any news from either options. Regards, Pedro

Btw, please fix the typo ;)

Your ass! :)

Dirty minds! But, yes thank you, done :)