Handle same request multiple times

Question

I'm building a silly music quiz game for learning. I need to populate my view with related music from deezer api .

What I need:

1. Get a random genre
2. Get 5 artist from this genre (id + name)
3. Get 1 music from each artist (name + link preview)

So, I found my way until step 3

But I can't find out how to properly send the same request 4 times (for each artist), and my reasearch gave me nothing so far

function deezer() {

    const reqGenero = new Request('https://api.deezer.com/genre');

    fetch(reqGenero)
        .then(response => {
            if (response.status === 200) {
                return response.json();
            } else {
                throw new Error('Erro ao pegar gêneros');
            }
        })
        .then(generos => {
            /* pega genero aleatorio */
            var generoId = generos.data[Math.floor(Math.random() * 10 + 1)].id;
            //console.log('\ngenero... ' + generoId);
            return fetch('https://api.deezer.com/genre/' + generoId + '/artists')
        })
        .then(response => {
            if (response.status === 200) {
                return response.json();
            } else {
                throw new Error('Erro ao pegar artistas');
            }
        })
        .then(artistas => {
            /* 1 música de 4 artistas */
            var artistasIds = [];
            for(var i = 0; i <= 4; i++) {   
                artistasIds.push(artistas.data[i].id);
                console.log('\nId: ' + artistasIds[i]);

                // CAN I SEND THIS REQUEST 4 TIMES?
                return fetch('https://api.deezer.com/artist/' + ids + '/top'); 
            }
        })         
        .catch(error => {
            console.error(error);
        });      
}

*Pleade let me know if I'm doing something really wrong

Answer 1

If using promises explicitly (see below for async functions), I'd probably approach it like this; see *** comments for explanation:

// *** Give yourself a helper function so you don't repeat this logic over and over
function fetchJson(errmsg, ...args) {
    return fetch(...args)
        .then(response => {
            if (!response.ok) { // *** .ok is simpler than .status == 200
                throw new Error(errmsg);
            }
            return response.json();
        });
}
function deezer() {
    // *** Not sure why you're using Request here?
    const reqGenero = new Request('https://api.deezer.com/genre');
    fetchJson('Erro ao pegar gêneros', reqGenero)
        .then(generos => {
            /* pega genero aleatorio */
            var generoId = generos.data[Math.floor(Math.random() * 10 + 1)].id;
            //console.log('\ngenero... ' + generoId);
            return fetchJson('Erro ao pegar artistas', 'https://api.deezer.com/genre/' + generoId + '/artists')
        })
        .then(artistas => {
            /* 1 música de 4 artistas */
            // *** Use Promise.all to wait for the four responses
            return Promise.all(artistas.data.slice(0, 4).map(
                entry => fetchJson('Erro ao pegar música', 'https://api.deezer.com/artist/' + entry.id + '/top')
            ));
        })         
        .then(musica => {
            // *** Use musica here, it's an array of the music responses
        })
        .catch(error => {
            console.error(error);
        });      
}

That's assuming you want to use the results in deezer . If you want deezer to return the results (a promise of the four songs), then:

// *** Give yourself a helper function so you don't repeat this logic over and over
function fetchJson(errmsg, ...args) {
    return fetch(...args)
        .then(response => {
            if (!response.ok) { // *** .ok is simpler than .status == 200
                throw new Error(errmsg);
            }
            return response.json();
        });
}
function deezer() {
    const reqGenero = new Request('https://api.deezer.com/genre');
    return fetchJson('Erro ao pegar gêneros', reqGenero) // *** Note the return
        .then(generos => {
            /* pega genero aleatorio */
            var generoId = generos.data[Math.floor(Math.random() * 10 + 1)].id;
            //console.log('\ngenero... ' + generoId);
            return fetchJson('Erro ao pegar artistas', 'https://api.deezer.com/genre/' + generoId + '/artists')
        })
        .then(artistas => {
            /* 1 música de 4 artistas */
            // *** Use Promise.all to wait for the four responses
            return Promise.all(artistas.data.slice(0, 4).map(
                entry => fetchJson('Erro ao pegar música', 'https://api.deezer.com/artist/' + entry.id + '/top')
            ));
        });
        // *** No `then` using the results here, no `catch`; let the caller handle it
}

The async function version of that second one:

// *** Give yourself a helper function so you don't repeat this logic over and over
async function fetchJson(errmsg, ...args) {
    const response = await fetch(...args)
    if (!response.ok) { // *** .ok is simpler than .status == 200
        throw new Error(errmsg);
    }
    return response.json();
}
async function deezer() {
    const reqGenero = new Request('https://api.deezer.com/genre');
    const generos = await fetchJson('Erro ao pegar gêneros', reqGenero);
    var generoId = generos.data[Math.floor(Math.random() * 10 + 1)].id;
    //console.log('\ngenero... ' + generoId);
    const artistas = await fetchJson('Erro ao pegar artistas', 'https://api.deezer.com/genre/' + generoId + '/artists');
    /* 1 música de 4 artistas */
    // *** Use Promise.all to wait for the four responses
    return Promise.all(artistas.data.slice(0, 4).map(
        entry => fetchJson('Erro ao pegar música', 'https://api.deezer.com/artist/' + entry.id + '/top')
    ));
}

Answer 2

You can create 4 requests and wait for all of them to complete , using Promise#all .

.then(artistas => {
  /* 1 música de 4 artistas */
  const artistasPromises = artistas.data.map(artista =>
    fetch("https://api.deezer.com/artist/" + artista.id + "/top").catch(
      err => ({ error: err })
    )
  );
  return Promise.all(artistasPromises);
}).then(musicList => {
  console.log(musicList);
});

Notice the catch() . This makes sure that even if a fetch fails, the other fetch results are not ignored. This is because of the way Promise#all works. So, you need to iterate over musicList and check if there is any object of the shape { error: /* error object */ } and ignore that while processing the list.

Answer 3

You can replace the statement

// CAN I SEND THIS REQUEST 4 TIMES?
return fetch('https://api.deezer.com/artist/' + ids + '/top'); 

with

const fetchResults = [];    
artistasIds.forEach(function(ids){  
  fetchResults.push(fetch('https://api.deezer.com/artist/' + ids + '/top'));
});
return Promise.all(fetchResults);

in then condition you'll get an array of values with top music from each artist. I haven't checked with the given API, but ideally it should work.

Answer 4

Yes you can make 5 requests (not 4 its 0-4) and wait for each to complete. Use Array.prototype.map to create an array of request promises.(prefer over for- forEach and array.push)

and Promise.all to wait for all the promises to get complete, which will return the array of resolved responses, if no failures.

.then(artistas => {
  /* 1 música de 4 artistas */
  var artistasIds = [];
  let ids = artistas.data.map(artist => artist.id).slice(0, 4);
  requests = ids.map(id => fetch(`https://api.deezer.com/artist/${id}/top`));
  return Promise.all(requests);
  }
})