Using async await to get http response from request.post [duplicate]

Question

I am writing a server in node using async/await (http://stackabuse.com/node-js-async-await-in-es7/ and using bable to transpile) and request (https://github.com/request/request). I am trying to make a post request to an external api and access the http response headers. I can only figure out how to access the request that I am sending. How do I get the HttpResponse?

Here is the code

var options = { url: externalUrl, form: body }; try { var httpResponse = await request.post(options); console.log(httpResponse.headers.location); return "post request succeeded!"; } catch (err) { return done(err, null); }

done(err, null)? You should not use callbacks any more when you are working with promises and async/await. — Bergi
– Bergi, Commented Sep 21, 2016 at 0:19

Dan · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-20 22:27:55Z

Looks like request is implemented with callbacks. ES7 async/await only works with Promises. You can use a library like bluebird to promisify all methods from request. Async/await should work afterwards.

manuerumx · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-20 22:26:20Z

If you are using Request you don't need async.

You can easy do this:

request({ headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', }, uri: url, body: JSON.stringify(options), method: 'POST' }, function (err, res, body) { var obj = JSON.parse(body); if(err){ console.log("Ooops: " + err); }else{ console.log(res.headers['content-type']); //Do some stuff with the server response; } });

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Using async await to get http response from request.post [duplicate]

2 Answers 2

Comments

Comments

Linked

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

2 Answers 2

Comments

Comments

Linked

Related