Async / Await fails in Node JS - node.js

Question

I am having some issues with Async/Await when trying to process my MSSQL Query.
The query works fine because if i do
console.log(sqltest.getNextId("A"))
I get the expected result. But i need to wait for the result from first query to pass on to second one so i tried below. Am i missing here something ? I would like to keep it as clean as possible because i might have the need to execute more then 2 in Sequence.
async function someMethod() {
var newId = await sqltest.getNextId("A")
var nextId = await sqltest.updateId("A",newId)
console.log(newId + ' - ' + nextId)
}
someMethod()
Here is what my getNextId looks like
const getNextId = (counter_id) =>
{const params = [{ name: "p_counter_id", type: sql.VarChar(10), value: counter_id }]
sqlUtil
.storedProcedure(params, "sp_counter_sel")
.then(result =>
{
var newCounter = sequence
(
result.recordset[0].next_id,
result.recordset[0].counter_length,
result.recordset[0].counter_fill
)
console.log(newCounter)
return newCounter
}
)
.catch(err => {
console.log('Error: ' + err.message)
})
}
ok to eliminate all confusion here is my .storedProcedure code
let storedProcedure = async (params, storedProcedureName) => {
const pool = await getOrCreatePool()
let request = await pool.request()
params.forEach((parameter) => {
parameterDirection = parameter.isOutput ? 'output' : 'input';
request = request[parameterDirection](parameter.name, parameter.type, parameter.value)
})
try {
return await request.execute(storedProcedureName)
sql.on('error', err => {
})
} catch(err) {
let message = {
message: {
msg: err.message,
number: err.number
},
}
throw message;
}
}

Answer 1

There is no underhanded error it just returns undefined - undefined for the console.log
This comment is actually is the important bit!
getNextId does not actually return anything, not the value you are looking for, and not a promise that you can await. The reason you are seeing output is that getNextId runs a console.log in the then callback.
But console.log(sqltest.getNextId("A")) is probably spitting out an undefined
Since sqlUtil.storedProcedure seems to return a promise (you can tell because you call then() on it, you should be able to convert this to an async function, and await on that.
const getNextId = async (counter_id) => {
const params = [{
name: "p_counter_id",
type: sql.VarChar(10),
value: counter_id
}]
const result = await sqlUtil.storedProcedure(params, "sp_counter_sel")
var newCounter = sequence(
result.recordset[0].next_id,
result.recordset[0].counter_length,
result.recordset[0].counter_fill
)
return newCounter
}
console.log(await getNextId("A")); // Should be what you expect.
This function now has a return value. Because it is now async and has a return statement that is not nested inside another function. It now returns a Promise that resolves to newCounter, and can be called with await.