Javascript Promises with FileReader()

Question

I have the following HTML Code:

<input type='file' multiple>

And Here's my JS Code:

var inputFiles = document.getElementsByTagName("input")[0];
inputFiles.onchange = function(){
    var fr = new FileReader();
    for(var i = 0; i < inputFiles.files.length; i++){
        fr.onload = function(){
            console.log(i) // Prints "0, 3, 2, 1" in case of 4 chosen files
        }
    }
    fr.readAsDataURL(inputFiles.files[i]);
}

So my question is, how can I make this loop synchronous ? That is first wait for the file to finish loading then move on to the next file. Someone told me to use JS Promises. But I can't make it to work. Here's what I'm trying:

var inputFiles = document.getElementsByTagName("input")[0];
inputFiles.onchange = function(){
    for(var i = 0; i < inputFiles.files.length; i++){
        var fr = new FileReader();
        var test = new Promise(function(resolve, reject){
            console.log(i) // Prints 0, 1, 2, 3 just as expected
            resolve(fr.readAsDataURL(inputFiles.files[i]));
        });
        test.then(function(){
            fr.onload = function(){
                console.log(i); // Prints only 3
            }
        });
    };
}

Thanks in advance...

Answer 1

If you want to do it sequentially( not synchronously) using Promises, you could do something like:

var inputFiles = document.getElementsByTagName("input")[0];
inputFiles.onchange = function(){
  var promise = Promise.resolve();
  inputFiles.files.map( file => promise.then(()=> pFileReader(file)));
  promise.then(() => console.log('all done...'));
}

function pFileReader(file){
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    var fr = new FileReader();  
    fr.onload = resolve;  // CHANGE to whatever function you want which would eventually call resolve
    fr.readAsDataURL(file);
  });
}