kony-timeout-polyfill v2.0.1

Timeouts Polyfill for the Kony Platform

Defines the setTimeout, clearTimeout, setInterval and clearInterval functions for non-browser environments -i.e. Native mobile. This allows for the use of third party libraries dependent on these functions in Visualizer native applications.

It also defines kony.timer.schedule2 and kony.timer.cancel2 as safe versions of kony.timer.schedule and kony.timer.cancel respectively. These allow you to schedule a timer without having to provide a unique timer id, and cancelling a timer without having to worry about it actually existing or being already cancelled.

How to Install

You can get these included in your Visualizer project by running

npm install --prefix=modules kony-timeout-polyfill

It's important to keep the aaa prefix in order to force these modules to be loaded before any other javascript libraries that might be dependent on setTimeout/clearTimeout or setInterval/clearInterval being defined.

Implementation Notes

I use eval in order to avoid declaring the these functions unless they're undefined. The fact that in global native apps there's no global this variable and that in web apps they're already defined and I must avoid overwriting them, makes the use of eval necessary.