Merge pull request #286 from strongloop/fix/booting-flag

fix: set `app.booting` flag immediately

lib/bootstrapper.js

@@ -202,11 +202,20 @@ Bootstrapper.prototype.run = function(context, done) {
   context = context || {};
 
   var phases = context.phases || this.phases;
+
+  if (phases.includes('starting') || phases.includes('start')) {
+    context.app.booting = true;
+  }
+
   var bootPlugins = this.getExtensions('/boot');
   async.eachSeries(phases, function(phase, done) {
     debug('Phase %s', phase);
     async.eachSeries(bootPlugins, pluginIteratorFactory(context, phase), done);
   }, function(err) {
+    if (phases.includes('started')) {
+      context.app.booting = false;
+    }
+
     return done(err, context);
   });
   return done.promise;

lib/plugins/application.js

@@ -116,7 +116,6 @@ function applyAppConfig(app, appConfig) {
 
 Application.prototype.starting = function(context) {
   var app = context.app;
-  app.booting = true;
   assertLoopBackVersion(app);
 
   var appConfig = context.instructions.application;
@@ -129,7 +128,6 @@ Application.prototype.starting = function(context) {
 
 Application.prototype.started = function(context, done) {
   var app = context.app;
-  app.booting = false;
   process.nextTick(function() {
     app.emit('booted');
     done();

test/acceptance.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+// Copyright IBM Corp. 2015,2016. All Rights Reserved.
+// Node module: loopback-boot
+// This file is licensed under the MIT License.
+// License text available at https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
+
+'use strict';
+
+var path = require('path');
+var loopback = require('loopback');
+
+var chai = require('chai');
+var dirtyChai = require('dirty-chai');
+var expect = chai.expect;
+chai.use(dirtyChai);
+
+const bootLoopBackApp = require('..');
+
+describe('bootLoopBackApp', function() {
+  var app;
+  beforeEach(function() {
+    app = loopback();
+  });
+
+  it('sets app.booting immediately', function() {
+    const appDir = path.join(__dirname, './fixtures/empty-app');
+
+    // Start the bootstrapper
+    const promise = bootLoopBackApp(app, appDir);
+
+    // Still in the original turn of the event loop,
+    // verify that the app is signalling "boot in progress"
+    expect(app.booting).to.equal(true);
+
+    // Wait for bootstrapper to finish
+    return promise.then(() => {
+      // Verify that app is signalling "boot has finished"
+      expect(app.booting).to.equal(false);
+    });
+  });
+});

test/fixtures/empty-app/config.json

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+{
+}