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Krishnan Sriram
Krishnan Sriram

Reputation: 5449

Convert request.post to async/await

I have converted a lot of request.get to follow this new async/await pattern. Is there a way to do the same for request.post. Here's a sample code I have and would appreciate any input

 try {
request({ url: url, method: 'POST', body: parameters, json: true}, function (error, response, body) {
  if (!error) {
    return res.status(200).send(response.body);
  } else {
      return res.status(500).send(response.body);
  }
});  
} catch(err) {
    return res.status(500).send(err);
  }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2684

Answers (1)

sliptype
sliptype

Reputation: 2974

You could wrap the request method in a Promise and then in an async function like so:

let request = require('request');

async function asyncRequest(options) {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    request(options, (error, response, body) => resolve({ error, response, body }));
  });
}

async function google() {
  let response = await asyncRequest('http://www.google.com');
  console.log(response.response.statusCode);
}

google();

According to the documentation for request, you could use the request-promise module to avoid doing the Promise wrapping yourself

Upvotes: 2

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