function loadIssue()

in pysteve/www/htdocs/js/steve_cop.js [26:54]

• 27 lines of code
• 15 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

function loadIssue(election, issue, uid, callback) {
    
    var messages = ["Herding cats...", "Shaving yaks...", "Shooing some cows away...", "Fetching election data...", "Loading issues..."]
    if (!election || !uid) {
        var l = document.location.search.substr(1).split("/");
        election = l[0];
        issue = l.length > 1 ? l[l.length-2] : "";
        uid = l.length > 2 ? l[l.length-1] : "";
    }
    if (step == -1) {
        getJSON("/steve/voter/view/" + election + "/" + issue + "?uid=" + uid, [election, issue, uid], callback)
    }
    
    var obj = document.getElementById('preloader');
    step++;
    if (!election_data && obj) {
        if (step % 2 == 1) obj.innerHTML = messages[parseInt(Math.random()*messages.length-0.01)]
    } else if (obj && (step % 2 == 1)) {
        obj.innerHTML = "Ready..!"
    }
    if (step % 2 == 1) {
        obj.style.transform = "translate(0,0)"
    } else if (obj) {
        obj.style.transform = "translate(0,-500%)"
    }
    if (!election_data|| (step % 2 == 0) ) {
        window.setTimeout(loadElection, 750, election, uid, callback);
    }
}