feat: use uuid to get the correct ipc response only in the promise call that the request came from

package.json

@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@
     "jsdom": "^15.1.1",
     "node-fetch": "^2.6.0",
     "sqlite3": "^4.0.9",
-    "typeorm": "^0.2.18"
+    "typeorm": "^0.2.18",
+    "uuid": "^3.3.2"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@electron-forge/cli": "^6.0.0-beta.43",

src/declarations/uuid.d.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+declare module 'uuid/v1';
+declare module 'uuid/v3';
+declare module 'uuid/v4';
+declare module 'uuid/v5';

src/main/controllers/api.ts

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ const ipcServer: IIpcServer = {
       handler(payload.data)
         .then((result: any) => {
           const response: IIpcResponse = {
+            id: payload.id,
             success: true,
             data: result,
           };
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@ const ipcServer: IIpcServer = {
         })
         .catch((reason: any) => {
           const response: IIpcResponse = {
+            id: payload.id,
             success: false,
             error: reason.toString(),
           };

src/renderer/services/api.ts

@@ -1,20 +1,25 @@
 import { ipcRenderer } from 'electron';
 import IpcMessageEvent = Electron.IpcMessageEvent;
+import { uuid } from '../../services/uuid';
 
 const ipcClient: IIpcClient = {
   ask: (channel: IpcChannels, data?: any): Promise<any> => {
+    const id = uuid();
     const payload: IIpcPayload = {
+      id,
       data,
     };
 
     return new Promise((resolve: (value?: any) => void, reject: (reason?: any) => void): void => {
       const listener = (event: IpcMessageEvent, response: IIpcResponse): void => {
-        if (response.success) {
-          resolve(response.data);
-        } else {
-          reject(response.error);
+        if (response.id === id) {
+          if (response.success) {
+            resolve(response.data);
+          } else {
+            reject(response.error);
+          }
+          ipcRenderer.removeListener(channel, listener);
         }
-        ipcRenderer.removeListener(channel, listener);
       };
       ipcRenderer.send(channel, payload);
       ipcRenderer.on(channel, listener);

src/services/uuid.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+import uuidv1 from 'uuid/v1';
+
+const R = 0x52;
+const e = 0x65;
+const n = 0x6e;
+const a = 0x61;
+const i = 0x69;
+const nice = 0x45;
+
+export function uuid(): string {
+  return uuidv1({
+    node: [R, e, n, a, i, nice],
+  });
+}

src/types/ipc.ts

@@ -4,10 +4,12 @@ const enum IpcChannels {
 }
 
 interface IIpcPayload {
+  id: string;
   data: any;
 }
 
 interface IIpcResponse {
+  id: string;
   success: boolean;
   data?: any;
   error?: any;