CODEWITHSUNDEEP
node.jsecmascript-6
luke jon
luke jon

Reputation: 201

Loop through array and POST API calls

I want to loop through my array and post API calls each time to create a new record for each value in the array.

The below example would have made 3 separate calls and returned 3 new records but I can't get it to work, can someone advise if this is even the best method ?

var tens = "boo, foo, bar";
var letters = tens.split(',').map(string=>string.trim());

const apiCalls = callAPIs(letters);

function callAPIs(letters) {
  responses = [];
  letters.forEach(group => {
   var apiRequest = http.request({
    'endpoint': 'site',
    'path':'/api/v1/table/incident', 
    'method': 'POST',
    "headers": {
    "Authorization": "Basic xxxxxxxxxxxxx=",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
    }
    })
    apiRequest.write(group)
    apiRequest.end((data) => {
      responses.push(data)
    });
  });
  return responses
  console.log(responses)
}
var data = {};
var caller_id = "user1";
data.caller_id = caller_id;

Upvotes: 0

Views: 662

Answers (1)

Navitas28
Navitas28

Reputation: 777

Firstly you need to understand forEach in js is not promise aware. You have to use the old school for loop or some iterable for...in

async function callAPIs(letters) {
        responses = [];
        for (const i = 0; i < letters.length; i++) {
            var apiRequest = await http.request({
                'endpoint': 'site',
                'path': '/api/v1/table/incident',
                'method': 'POST',
                "headers": {
                    "Authorization": "Basic xxxxxxxxxxxxx=",
                    "Content-Type": "application/json"
                }
            })
            apiRequest.write(group)
            apiRequest.end((data) => {
                responses.push(data)
            });
        });
    return responses
    console.log(responses)
    }

Upvotes: 1

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