Are Nested Redis statments possible in Node.js?

Question

I've got the following code that contains a nested redis statement

   var objList =new Array(); 

    //Hardcoded key
    client.LRANGE("user4feed","0","-1",function(err,user){
        user.forEach(function (reply, i) {
                    //console.log("    " + i + ": " + reply);
            client.HGETALL('photo:'+reply,function(err,user){
                var test = user;    //Cant go array directly, will say 'user' is undefined
                objList.push(test);
            })
        });
       console.log("List length = "+user.length);
    })

console.log("objList= "+objList); //This is never reached

However, the last console log statement is never reached. It's almost as if it's in an infinite loop...

Any idea how to get out of this?

Thanks

Answer 1

Your final console log is outside the redis call. So it is called immediately when NodeJS calls the redis LRANGE asynchronously. Put it inside the LRANGE callback.