callbackNextTick method added to API

[mstdokumaci]

Sometimes an async function needs tor return a sync result. For the sake of consistency of async flow; we need to call the callback function wrapped in a nextTick block. This new method simplifys this effort.

Example:

function asyncFn (other_arguments, callback) {
  if (cached_result) {
    return async.callbackNextTick(callback, cached_result);
  }
  some_async_call(some_arguments, callback);
}

[aearly]

So this is like async.nextTick, except you can pass additional parameters to the function?

What about augmenting async.nextTick and async.setImmediate to do that?

[aearly]

Ah, this type of behavior was voted down in iojs: nodejs/node#1077

You can also accomplish the same thing by doing:

async.nextTick(callback.bind(null, cached_result));

[aearly]

Well, looks like this was actually added: nodejs/node@10e31ba

[aearly]

Closing, we'll track this in #940.