tastypie/node_modules/mout/src/function/awaitDelay.js

Tastypie is a webservice API framework for Node.js based on Django's Tastypie Framework. It provides a convenient, yet powerful and highly customizable, abstraction for creating REST-style interfaces

define(['../time/now', './timeout', '../array/append'], function (now, timeout, append) {

    /**
     * Ensure a minimum delay for callbacks
     */
    function awaitDelay( callback, delay ){
        var baseTime = now() + delay;
        return function() {
            // ensure all browsers will execute it asynchronously (avoid hard
            // to catch errors) not using "0" because of old browsers and also
            // since new browsers increase the value to be at least "4"
            // http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/timers.html#dom-windowtimers-settimeout
            var ms = Math.max(baseTime - now(), 4);
            return timeout.apply(this, append([callback, ms, this], arguments));
        };
    }

    return awaitDelay;

});