I'm new to nodejs. I’m not seeing the response in ex 1, but i see in ex 2. Why? Await works for me in other places, using babel.
Ex 1
let res = await request(url)
console.log(res);
console.log(res.body);
Ex 2
request(url, function (error, res, body) {
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
console.log(body)
}
});
Await works in other places, I’m using babel and required modules for es6 and es7 features. For example, await works in squelize call, i validated. But it doesn’t work for request call. Why?
You should only await
on something that returns a Promise. I would definitely recommend reading up on Promises before you start working with async
and await
. You can probably get this example to work by creating your own wrapper function around request
to make it return a promise, like so:
function doRequest(url) {
return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
request(url, function (error, res, body) {
if (!error && res.statusCode == 200) {
resolve(body);
} else {
reject(error);
}
});
});
}
// Usage:
async function main() {
let res = await doRequest(url);
console.log(res);
}
main();
Edit: Alternatively, you can look into using request-promise instead of the regular request module.
ES6
Usage: Where request
is require('./await-request')
const init = async () => {
try {
const result = await request({
uri: 'statdirectory/exchange?json',
baseUrl: 'https://bank.gov.ua/NBUStatService/v1/',
json: true
})
console.log(result)
}
catch (err) {
console.error(err)
}
}
Code:
// request-service.js
const request = require('request')
module.exports = async (value) =>
new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
request(value, (error, response, data) => {
if(error) reject(error)
else resolve(data)
})
})
Try with the following NPM package
node-fetch
var url = "http://www.google.com";
try
{
const response = await fetch(url);
const json = await response.json();
return {message:json.message,status:json.type};
}
catch(error)
{
console.log(error);
}
Hope it works.