now has working taskchain

dist/taskbuffer.classes.taskchain.d.ts

@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ export declare class Taskchain extends Task {
     taskArray: Task[];
     private _oraObject;
     constructor(optionsArg: {
-        taskArray: Task[];
         name?: string;
+        log?: boolean;
+        taskArray: Task[];
     });
     addTask(taskArg: Task): void;
     removeTask(taskArg: Task): void;
     shiftTask(): void;
-    trigger(): void;
+    trigger(): any;
 }

package.json

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   },
   "homepage": "https://github.com/pushrocks/taskbuffer#readme",
   "dependencies": {
-    "beautylog": "^4.2.0",
+    "beautylog": "^5.0.0",
     "lodash": "^4.12.0",
     "projectinfo": "1.0.1",
     "q": "^1.4.1",

test/test.ts

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ let plugins = {
     q: require("q")
 }
 
-//setup some testData to work with
+// setup some testData to work with
 let testTask:taskbuffer.Task;
 let testTaskFunction = function(){
     let done = plugins.q.defer();
@@ -45,5 +45,40 @@ describe("taskbuffer",function(){
             testTask.trigger()
                 .then(done);
         });
+        it("should run a task without pre and afterTask",function(done){
+            let localTestTask = new taskbuffer.Task({taskFunction:testTaskFunction});
+            localTestTask.trigger().then(done);
+        });
+    });
+    describe("Taskchain",function(){
+        let testTaskchain;
+        let testTaskArray = [
+            new taskbuffer.Task({
+                name:"task1",
+                taskFunction:function(){
+                    let done = plugins.q.defer();
+                    console.log("Task1 run");
+                    done.resolve();
+                    return done.promise;
+                }
+            }),
+            new taskbuffer.Task({
+                name:"task2",
+                taskFunction: function(){
+                    let done = plugins.q.defer();
+                    console.log("Task2 run");
+                    done.resolve();
+                    return done.promise;
+                }
+            }),
+        ];
+        it("should run tasks in sequence",function(done){
+            testTaskchain = new taskbuffer.Taskchain({
+                name:"Taskchain1",
+                taskArray:testTaskArray
+            });
+            testTaskchain.trigger().then(done);
+            
+        });
     });
 });

ts/taskbuffer.classes.taskchain.ts

@@ -7,26 +7,40 @@ export class Taskchain extends Task {
     taskArray:Task[];
     private _oraObject;
     constructor(optionsArg:{
+        name?:string,
+        log?:boolean,
         taskArray:Task[]
-        name?:string
     }){
-        let options = plugins.lodash.assign(optionsArg,{
+        let options = plugins.lodash.assign(
+            {
+                name:"unnamed Task",
+                log:false
+            },
+            optionsArg,
+            {
                 taskFunction: () => { // this is the function that gets executed when TaskChain is triggered
-                if(this.taskArray.length = 0) return; //make sure there is actually a Task available to execute
+                    console.log("running taskchain function");
-                let startDeferred = plugins.Q.defer(); // this is the starting Deferred object 
+                    let done = plugins.Q.defer(); // this is the starting Deferred object 
-                let promisePointer = startDeferred.promise;
+                    let taskCounter = 0;
-                for(let keyArg in this.taskArray){
+                    let iterateTasks = () => {
-                    promisePointer.then(function(){
+                        if(typeof this.taskArray[taskCounter] != "undefined"){
-                        promisePointer = this.taskArray[keyArg].trigger();
+                            this.taskArray[taskCounter].trigger()
-                        return promisePointer;
+                                .then(()=>{
-                    })
+                                    taskCounter++;
-                };
+                                    iterateTasks();
-                startDeferred.resolve();
-            }
                                 });     
+                        } else {
+                            done.resolve();
+                        }
+                    };
+                    iterateTasks();
+                    return done.promise;
+                }
+            }
+        );
         super(options);
         this.taskArray = optionsArg.taskArray;
-        this._oraObject = plugins.beautylog.ora("Taskchain idle","blue");
+        this._oraObject = new plugins.beautylog.Ora("Taskchain idle","blue");
     }
     addTask(taskArg:Task){
         this.taskArray.push(taskArg);
@@ -38,7 +52,8 @@ export class Taskchain extends Task {
         
     };
     trigger(){
-        this._oraObject.start(this.name + "running");
+        this._oraObject.start(this.name + " running...");
+        return helpers.runTask(this);
     }
 };