We are working on a fun Node.js project at work. However, we were doing a for-loop with a callback and had big problems to pass in the variable into the callback-function. Either it was undefined or all entries had the same value.

We had this bit of code that wasn’t working:

for( var i = 0; i < formattedRoomList.length; i++ ){

var id = formattedRoomList[i].id;
client.calendar.events.list({calendarId: formattedRoomList[i].id, timeMax: toDate, timeMin: fromDate }).withAuthClient(oauthClient).execute(function(err, result) {
		console.log(id);
		if (err) {
		  console.log('getCalendars: An error occurred:', err);
		} else {
		
		  var customId = { customId : id };
		  resultData.push(extend({},result,customId));

		}
		callbackCounter++;
		
		if(callbackCounter == formattedRoomList.length) {
			callback(resultData);
		   console.log(resultData);
		}
});
}

To get it to work correctly we needed to wrap it with an anonymous function and pass it in. Just like this:

for( var i = 0; i < formattedRoomList.length; i++ ){

		var id = formattedRoomList[i].id;
	
		client.calendar.events.list({calendarId: formattedRoomList[i].id, timeMax: toDate, timeMin: fromDate }).withAuthClient(oauthClient).execute(
			(function(id) {
				return function(err, result) {
					console.log(id);
					if (err) {
					  console.log('getCalendars: An error occurred:', err);
					} else {
					
					  var customId = { customId : id };
					  resultData.push(extend({},result,customId));

					}
					callbackCounter++;
					
					if(callbackCounter == formattedRoomList.length) {
						callback(resultData);
					   console.log(resultData);
					}
			}; })(id)
		);
	}