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Maybe I don’t understand promises, either.
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| // I expect: | |
| doSomething().then(doSomethingElse()) | |
| .then(finalHandler); | |
| // To act like: | |
| /* | |
| doSomething | |
| |-----------------| | |
| doSomethingElse(undefined) | |
| |------------------------| | |
| resultOfDoSomethingElse(resultOfDoSomething) | |
| |------------------------------------------| | |
| finalHandler(resultOfDoSomething) | |
| |------------------| | |
| */ | |
| // or: | |
| /* | |
| doSomething | |
| |-----------------| | |
| doSomethingElse(undefined) | |
| |--------------| | |
| resultOfDoSomethingElse(resultOfDoSomething) | |
| |------------------------------------------| | |
| finalHandler(resultOfDoSomething) | |
| |------------------| | |
| */ |
You are not wrong.
Assuming of course:
doSomething returns a promise
resultOfDoSomethingElse also returns a promise, but for some reason required the value returned from doSomething
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Note that my assumption is that
doSomethingElseis a function that returns a function that returns a promise.