Cannot access Firestore within a HTTP Trigger of Cloud Functions - node.js

Question

I need to store my values from the request body to the cloud firestore and sent back the foruminsertdata.Name back in the response. But I am not able to do this.
const functions = require('firebase-functions');
const admin =require("firebase-admin");
admin.initializeApp(functions.config().firebase);
const db = admin.firestore();
exports.helloWorld = functions.https.onRequest((req, res) => {
if(req.method === 'POST'){
foruminsertdata = req.body;
db.collection('forum').add({
Name: foruminsertdata.Name,
Description: foruminsertdata.Description,
Heading: foruminsertdata.Heading,
PostedOn: foruminsertdata.PostedOn,
Status: foruminsertdata.Status,
})
.then(ref => {
console.log('Added document with ID: ', ref.id);
return res.status(200).json(
{
message: foruminsertdata.Name
});
})
.catch(err => {
console.log('Error getting documents', err);
});
res.json({
message: foruminsertdata.Status,
});
}
})
I don't know what is happening...Whatever I do I always get the output as
{
message: foruminsertdata.Status,
}
in which "foruminsertdata.Status" has some value that I give
but what I expect the output as
{
message: foruminsertdata.Name
}

Answer 1

Your function is immediately returning foruminsertdata.Status to the client without waiting for the promise from the database operations to resolve. Any function that returns a promise is asynchronous and returns immediately. Execution will continue in the callbacks you attach to it.
I'm not sure why you have two calls to res.json() in your code, but if you want to send a response only after your query completes, you'll remove the second one and just send a response after the query is done. You will probably also want to send a response in the catch callback as well to indicate an error.