Serverless framework can't use promise? - node.js

Question

I'm trying to make REST apis with the serverless framework.
Some of the functions are asynchronous.
So I'm using Promise.
But the promise is not working (no response)
So, I'm using the await keyword. It works fine.
I think this is bad way. How to use promise in serverless framework?
Any advice or suggestion would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

You can use the promise of many ways. Personally, separate the promise in another function.
I made a example with request module:
const request = require("request");
// The promise
const requestPromise = (url, options) =>
new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
options = options || {};
const processRequest = (err, response) => (err ? reject(err) : resolve(response));
request(url, options, processRequest);
});
// You can use like this
module.exports = (event,context) => {
let url = event.url;
requestPromise(url)
.then(response => {
// Do something
context.succeed({succeed: true /* put return data here */})
})
.catch(details => context.fail({error: true, details: details}));
}
// Or this
module.exports = async (event,context) => {
try {
let url = event.url;
let response = await requestPromise(url);
// Do something
context.succeed({succeed: true /* put return data here */});
} catch (details) {
context.fail({error: true, details: details});
}
}
If you use async/wait, you need add try/catch to handler errors.

Answer 2

I am coding a serverless-kubeless api now for the mysql world database. I had to solve this problem yesterday. I arrived at the following solution. It's not feature complete. But you didn't ask for that. So here is a working GET endpoint which accepts various query parameters to customise the query.
'use strict';
const pool = require('./database');
module.exports.handler = async (event, context) => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
let request = event.extensions.request;
let response = event.extensions.response;
try{
let handleResults = (err, results, fields) => {
if(err){
response.status(500).send({
success: false,
message: err.message,
});
}else{
response.status(200).send({
success: true,
count: results.length,
data: results,
});
}
}
if(typeof(request.query.id) !== "undefined"){
// search for a specific region by id
if (Number.isNaN(Number(request.query.id))) {
response.status(500).send({
success: false,
message: "id query param was not a number",
});
}
pool.query("select id,name,code,country_id from regions where id = ?", [request.query.id], handleResults);
}else if(typeof(request.query.country) !== "undefined"){
// search for a region list from a specific country
if (Number.isNaN(Number(request.query.country))) {
response.status(500).send({
success: false,
message: "country query param was not a number",
});
}
pool.query("select id,name,code,country_id from regions where country_id = ?", [request.query.country], handleResults);
}else{
response.status(400).send({
success: false,
message: "Could not find country, or region query parameter. Require a search term"
});
}
}catch(exception){
response.status(500).send({
success: false,
message: exception.message
});
}
});
and database.js:
const mysql = require("mysql");
const util = require('util');
const pool = mysql.createPool({
connectionLimit: 10,
host: process.env.DATABASE_HOSTNAME,
user: process.env.DATABASE_USERNAME,
port: process.env.DATABASE_PORT,
password: process.env.DATABASE_PASSWORD,
database: process.env.DATABASE_NAME,
});
pool.getConnection((err, connection) => {
if (err) {
if (err.code === 'PROTOCOL_CONNECTION_LOST') {
console.error('Database connection was closed.');
}
if (err.code === 'ER_CON_COUNT_ERROR') {
console.error('Database has too many connections.');
}
if (err.code === 'ECONNREFUSED') {
console.error('Database connection was refused.');
}
}
if (connection) connection.release();
return;
});
// Magic happens here.
pool.query = util.promisify(pool.query);
module.exports = pool;

Answer 3

I commonly do stuff with Promises in my serverless projects:
//this would me in a module like: services/myhttpservice.js (for example)
//wrap the GET HTTP request in a Promise
module.exports.GetUrlPromise = function(url, cookie_session_value) {
console.log(new Date().getTime() + " GetUrlPromise() CALLED: " + url);
var j = request.jar();
if(cookie_session_value){
var cookie1 = request.cookie(cookie_name + '=' + cookie_session_value);
j.setCookie(cookie1, cookie_domain);// domain used by the cookie, maybe make more generic?
}
// create the "Basic" auth header
var auth = "Basic " + Buffer.from(basic_username + ":" + basic_password).toString("base64");
//create request options
var options = {
'method': 'GET',
'url': url,
'jar': j,
'headers': {
'Authorization': auth,// set Basic auth header that is the base64 of the un:pw combo
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}
};
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
request(options, function (error, response, body) {
if(error){
console.log('error:', error);
reject(error);
}else{
console.log('statusCode:', response && response.statusCode);
// object for returning response results
var http_resp = {};
http_resp._session = GetCookieValue(response);
http_resp.body = body;
http_resp.statusCode = response.statusCode;
//http_resp.response = response;
http_resp.requestType = 'GET';
console.log(JSON.stringify(http_resp));
resolve(http_resp);
}
});
});
}
It gives me the ability to make promised calls to my services easily:
//in my controller code:
myhttpservice.GetUrlPromise(page_url, user_session)
.then((http_resp)=>{ etc...

Answer 4

Await and async are not bad practices if used correctly.
If you don't have promises depending on each other you can call them in 'parallel' by adding all promises (without await) in an array and use const responses = await Promise.all(promisesArray) to wait for all responses to be successful.
For more information refer to this answer which explains very well Call async/await functions in parallel