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## m.deferred
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This is a low-level method in Mithril. It's a modified version of the Thenable API.
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A deferred is an asynchrony monad. It exposes a `promise` property which can *bind* callbacks to build a computation tree.
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The deferred object can then *apply* a value by calling either `resolve` or `reject`, which then dispatches the value to be processed to the computation tree.
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Each computation function takes a value as a parameter and is expected to return another value, which in turns is forwarded along to the next computation function (or functions) in the tree.
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---
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### Usage
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```javascript
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//standalone usage
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var greetAsync = function() {
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var deferred = m.deferred();
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setTimeout(function() {
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deferred.resolve("hello");
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}, 1000);
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return deferred.promise;
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};
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greetAsync()
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.then(function(value) {return value + " world"})
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.then(function(value) {console.log(value)}); //logs "hello world" after 1 second
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```
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---
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### Signature
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[How to read signatures](how-to-read-signatures.md)
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```clike
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Deferred deferred()
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where:
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Deferred :: Object { Promise promise, void resolve(any value), void reject(any value) }
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Promise :: GetterSetter { Promise then(any successCallback(any value), any errorCallback(any value)) }
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GetterSetter :: any getterSetter([any value])
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```
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- **GetterSetter { Promise then([any successCallback(any value) [, any errorCallback(any value)]]) } promise**
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A promise has a method called `then` which takes two computation callbacks as parameters.
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The `then` method returns another promise whose computations (if any) receive their inputs from the parent promise's computation.
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A promise is also a getter-setter (see [`m.prop`](mithril.prop)). After a call to either `resolve` or `reject`, it holds the result of the parent's computation (or the `resolve`/`reject` value, if the promise has no parent promises)
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- **Promise then([any successCallback(any value) [, any errorCallback(any value)]])**
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This method accepts two callbacks which process a value passed to the `resolve` and `reject` methods, respectively, and pass the processed value to the returned promise
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- **any successCallback(any value)** (optional)
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The `successCallback` is called if `resolve` is called in the root `deferred`.
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The default value (if this parameter is falsy) is the identity function `function(value) {return value}`
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If this function returns undefined, then it passes the `value` argument to the next step in the thennable queue, if any
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- **any errorCallback(any value)** (optional)
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The `errorCallback` is called if `reject` is called in the root `deferred`.
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The default value (if this parameter is falsy) is the identity function `function(value) {return value}`
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If this function returns undefined, then it passes the `value` argument to the next step in the thennable queue, if any
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- **returns Promise promise**
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- **void resolve(any value)**
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This method passes a value to the `successCallback` of the deferred object's child promise
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- **void reject(any value)**
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This method passes a value to the `errorCallback` of the deferred object's child promise
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