Calling a method from templates onDestroyed event

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1

Methods called from onDestroyed event are not executed on the server and returning undefined result to callback on client. If I call same method from any other event or helper there is no problem.

2

I just tested this in a project of mine and it works as I would expect. Can you share some code?

Template.action1.onDestroyed(function(){
  var instance = this;
  Meteor.call('onDestroyed',instance.view.name, function(err,res){
    console.log(`onRestroyed ${res}`, err);
  });
});
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Meteor.methods({
    "test.Destroy": function(param){
        console.log('testDestroy param:', param);
        Meteor._sleepForMs(3000);
        return "1";        
    },
});

Template.ProductFamilies_SubList_Template.onDestroyed(function() {
    console.log("ProductFamilies_SubList_Template.onDestroyed");
    Meteor.call("test.Destroy", "001", function(error, result){
        if(error){
            console.error("ProductFamilies_SubList_Template error:", error);
        }
        else{
            console.log("ProductFamilies_SubList_Template result:", result);
        }
    });
});

Log prints immediately on the client side;

ProductFamilies_SubList_Template.onDestroyed
ProductFamilies.templates.js:302 ProductFamilies_SubList_Template result: undefined

But nothing at all on the server.

4

Is your method defined on both, server and client, or only on the server?

5

Only on the server .

6

Hmm. Try what you get without the sleep on the server

7

Same result, method is never called.

8

That is odd, since my test verified that it should and does work. Is there any other code that might be interfering? Can you call the method outside of onDestroyed?

9

I implemented my requirement in a different way without depending onDestroyed. But it is quite strange, most of the time it doesn’t work. Sometimes server method is called as expected. Very unreliable. I tried also with an empty project.