What is Bacon.js equivalent to Rx.JS' withLatestFrom()? - rxjs

I'm trying to get use of atomic updates Bacon.js offers so have to rewrite Rx.JS code at some places of my app to Bacon.js, but can't figure out yet how can I implement withLatestFrom() with Bacon.js?
In such a way that, for example, when user clicks, some code executes with latest value from $serverResponses stream, but when server responses, that code (click handler) should not execute.
Thanks in advance :)

Try sampledBy. It has inverse argument ordering compared to withLatestFrom, but does the same thing.

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Race condition with Capybara value set

I have faced an issue while using .set(#{value}) to fill the text field in registering form, e.g: the phone number i wanna put in is 506307 then it ended up with 063075.
The work-around i have been made is executing Javascript block like
execute_script("document.querySelector('#{selector}').value = '#{value}'")
However, using the same scripts applying for Webmobile based on React.JS, the scripts above just send the text but didn't send the onChange event, which cause another element cannot be selected/clicked -> made the test failed.
I came up with another approach is to use the send_keys #{value} to trigger the key-pressed event that would make browser think there was a key-pressed event happen for that form, but it ended up with race-condition like set(#{value}) as i mentioned.
The another work-around is using What is the best way to trigger onchange event in react js , but i tend to use the native Capybara actions before making that tricky Javascript.
So, is there any other way to interact / fill the form field which won't cause that Race condition issue ?
Thanks everybody in advance.
Note: Any "solution" suggested that is purely the use of execute_script to run some JS is a terrible idea since it completely bypasses the concept of testing what a user can do and can basically make your test worthless.
The root cause of the issue here is the JS behavior attached to the input not being able to handle the key events fast enough. The proper fix would be to fix the JS, however if that's not possible there's a few things you can try
First you can try changing the clear method being used by set
element.set('506307', clear: :backspace)
or
element.set('506307', clear: :none)
If that doesn't change anything then try clicking on the input, followed by a short sleep before setting the content
element.click
sleep 0.25
element.set('506307')
If none of those work around the issue we need to know exactly what JS behavior you have attached to the input and/or what events that JS behavior is listening to.

c# Bot Builder SDK - Approach for Disambiguation

I'm building a LuisDialog and have LUIS integration working well.
In the cases where LUIS doesnt fill in all the gaps I need, what is the best approach for disambiguation?
Right now, I use PromptDialog callbacks - So inside a Dialog method (decorated with the LuisIntent attribute), when I need to get more details/disambiguate i'd have:
PromptDialog.Choice<string>(context, EnsureTimeOfDayChosen, new[] { "Morning (AM)", "Afternoon (PM)", "Any" }, "What time of day would you like us to book the appointment? (AM/PM/Any)", "Please choose AM or PM. Alternatively, if you don't mind which, just say Any.");
And the delegate's body (EnsureTimeOfDayChosen):
string AmPmOrAny = await result;
context.PerUserInConversationData.SetValue<string>("TimeOfDay", AmPmOrAny);
BookAppointment(context);
The problem with this approach is the last line of the delegate - it doesn't feel right. I can't easily call back into the place I was in the initially called, LuisIntent decorated method and resume.
Instead, I have to deal with the LUIS info up front, and call the BookAppointment method after gathering more info, and storing it in PerUserInConversationData.
Am I doing it wrong?
Any help would be greatly appreciated - Kind Regards,
Matt.
Given current implementation of the Dialog model, I cannot think of a better way of implementing your logic. Currently anytime that you are waiting on an async response from the user, your code will be resumed on the callback you provided upon response. You can think of it as Begin/End model for async programing

Using Promises in AngularJS Views

Mark Dalgleish wrote a nice little article about how to use promises in AngularJS views.
Some people asked questions about this in the comments, but Mark didn't answer them (yet). Because I'm asking me the same question, I will ask on StackOverflow instead to get an answer:
If you use promises in views, how do I handle "loading"/"waiting" indication, because they are async? Does a promise have something like a "resolved" or "withinRequest" property?
How do I handle errors? Normally they would arise in the second callback, but if I use a promise directly in the view I don't handle this case. Is there another way?
Thank you.
EDIT: as of angular v1.2 the resolution of promise in views is not activated by default.
The automatic resolution of promises in a view looks like a handy tool at first but it has number of limitations that need to be understood and evaluated carefully. The biggest issue with this approach is that it is AngularJS who will add callbacks to a promise and we've got little control over it.
Answering your questions:
1) As indicated, it is ultimately AngularJS who will add a success / error callbacks so we don't have much control here. What you could do is to wrap the original promise into a custom one that would track resolution. But this kind of deft the whole purpose of saving few keystrokes. And no, there is no things like 'resolved'. In short - there is no universal mechanism for tracking progress that would work for all promises. If your promises are $http-based you might use interceptors or pendingRequests property to track request in progress.
2) You can't. Once again, it is AngularJS that adds a handler inside the $parse service and it looks like this: promise.then(function(val) { promise.$$v = val; }); (see code here). You can see that only a success callback are added so all the failures are going to be silently ignored.
Those are not the only limitations of the automatic promise resolution in the view. The other problem is that promises returned by a function won't be resolved correctly. For example, if you would rewrite an example like so:
myModule.controller('HelloCtrl', function($scope, HelloWorld) {
$scope.messages = function() {
return HelloWorld.getMessages();
}
});
and try to use the following markup:
<li ng-repeat="message in messages()"></li>
things would work as expected, which might come as a surprise.
In short: while the automatic resolution of promises might seem like a handy shortcut it has number of limitations and non-obvious behaviors. Evaluate those carefully and decide if saving few keystrokes are worth it.

Webtrends Analytics implementation - Using variables in an async tracking call/pass variable as value

Does anyone here have experience doing a Webtrends implementation? According to their documentation, their asynchronous event tracking call is made by sending key-value string pairs into their tracking method, like this:
dcsMultiTrack('DCS.dcsuri', 'page.html', 'WT.ti', 'NameOfPage');
However, that model does not lend well to supporting dynamic data. What I would like to do is something like this, so that I can dynamically create the key-value pairs based on the user interaction I am capturing:
var wtString = "'DCS.dcsuri', 'page.html', 'WT.ti', 'NameOfPage'";
dcsMultiTrack(wtString);
In my proof of concept, though, that does not work. The actual webtrends JS mangles the data and the call is not made. (Sifting through their code, it looks like something breaks when assigning the arguments to the Webtrends object. Anyway, I can't edit their code because then they won't support it, so I stopped investigating that end of things.)
So the question is, how can I pass the JS variable as its value? I've done a lot of searching and tried things that I thought would both work and not work: String(), .toString(), .value(), closures, and even the dreaded eval(), but to no avail.
Any help would be MUCH appreciated. I'm at my wits end with this one.
It looks like JavaScript's apply function could help here:
var wtArguments = ['DCS.dcsuri', 'page.html', 'WT.ti', 'NameOfPage'];
dcsMultiTrack.apply(this, wtArguments);
This is effectively the same as calling:
dcsMultiTrack('DCS.dcsuri', 'page.html', 'WT.ti', 'NameOfPage');

Get list of currently dispatched events

I know this question may seem weird but I'd like to get a list of currently dispatched events.
The thing is that I am a lazy man and I would like to check if the 'checkout_cart_add_product_complete' has been fired without creating an observer for it.
So the idea is to get an array of all dispatched events and do an in_array on it :)
I thought that Mage::getEvents()->getAllEvents() would throw some info but it just returns an empty array.
I also digged a bit in lib/Varien/Event files and folders but didn't manage to be successful at creating an observer programmatically. Yep, I know, why being simple while one can be complicated ? :)
So this main question (getting a list of dispatched events) hides another (for the pure knowledge) wich would be "how to create an observer programmatically".
What do you think?
Thanks a lot!
Take a look at dispatchEvent and you'll see that events are only loaded from the assorted config.xml files, via SimpleXML. I cannot see any way to intercept this except to override Mage_Core_Model_App.
Of course there cannot be an event-dispatched-event, that would create an infinite loop, so there is no way to observe all events.
If you need to see events for development my advice would be to set a breakpoint in dispatchEvent with your debugger, that way you get to see not only the event names but also the objects passed as parameters too. I've tried other ways before but this was most convenient for me.
I need to do the same and I think it's possible to trick magento by the function getEventConfig in Mage_Core_Model_Config. You could force him to add automatically a default observer.

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