Okay, at the high level the inconsistency with global events (how I understood it) lays in the sandbox nature of Y object. So at some point you could fire only sync events globally cause async parameters you subscribe
to custom event made on Y instance and not passed further (and than YUI uses some defaults or whatever). This possibly makes sense but than why such kind of events should be fireable globally? Either I miss some substantial part of YUI and this is candidate for bug report.
Anyway I do not have time to dive deeper in YUI and what I really practically need could be wrapped in 40 lines of code:
YUI.add('async-pubsub', function(Y) {
var subscribers = {};
if ( !YUI.asyncPubSub ) {
YUI.namespace('asyncPubSub');
YUI.asyncPubSub = (function(){
var eventsFired = {};
function doPublishFor(name) {
var subscriber;
for ( subscriber in subscribers ) {
if ( subscriber === name ) {
(subscribers[name]).call();
delete ( subscribers[name] ); // Keep Planet clean
}
}
}
return {
'publish': function(name, options) {
eventsFired[name] = options || {};
doPublishFor(name);
},
'subscribe': function(name, callback) {
if ( subscribers[name] ) {
Y.log('More than one async subscriber per instance, overriding it.', 'warning', 'async-pubsub');
}
subscribers[name] = callback || function() {};
if ( eventsFired[name] ) {
window.setTimeout(
function () {
doPublishFor(name);
},0
);
}
}
};
})();
}
Y.asyncPubSub = YUI.asyncPubSub;
}, '1.0', {requires: []});
There is some limitation and room for optimization here, like ability subscribe only one action for one event per use
instance, but I do not need more. I will also try to debug and enhance this snippet in future if there will be interest.
Still curious about YUI behavior, is it bug or something?