Node JS Request Printing nothing in console - node.js

Question

I'm making an post call using the nodejs requests module. However, the console.log statements seems to be not working for either the error or the response.body that I am trying to get.
My POST request needs the following headers -
Accept : "application/json"
Content-Type : "application/json"
Authorization : Basic + Base64Encoded(username+password)
The post body is something like this
Body:
{
"arg_1" : "a_string_key"
, "arg_2" : "a_string"
, "arg_3" : "a_string"
, "arg_4" : "some_value"
, "arg_5" : "some_string"
, "arg_6" : "<yyyy-mm-dd>"
, "arg_7" : "<yyyy-mm-dd>"
}
My code does nothing but send a POST request and checks if the response.statusCode ==200
Here is what I am doing
var int_user = "username";
var int_pass = "password";
var encoding = "base64"
var auth = "Basic" + new Buffer(int_user + int_pass).toString(encoding);
var headers = {
"Accept": "application/json",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Authorization": auth
}
var options = {
url: 'URL_I_WANT',
// method: 'POST',
headers: headers,
body : {
"arg_1": "a_string_key",
"arg_2": "a_string",
"arg_3": "a_string",
"arg_4": "some_value",
"arg_5": "some_string",
"arg_6": "<yyyy-mm-dd>",
"arg_7": "<yyyy-mm-dd>"
},
json: true
}
console.log('Before request');
request.post(options, function(error, response) {
if (error) {
console.log(error);
}
try {
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
console.log(response.body);
console.log('Success');
}
} catch (error) {
console.log(error)
}
});
console.log('After request');
The code runs without any glitch and I get the before and after request console statements. However the statements inside the requests do not appear in the console, which means my request is not going through. I am not able to understand this. Shouldn't an error come if there is an issue with the request itself? Any if the request is failing, why isn't the error printed out?

Answer 1

This could be because your node process is auto-closed and it will exit before the async request to finishes (haven't looked into it but it might be something configurable). I've seen such set-up on repl.it for example.
To overcome this(if not configurable), you could wrap your code in an async function and use the request-promise to call await request.
var request = require('request-promise-native');
var int_user = "username";
var int_pass = "password";
var encoding = "base64"
var auth = "Basic" + new Buffer(int_user + int_pass).toString(encoding);
var headers = {
"Accept": "application/json",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Authorization": auth
}
var options = {
url: 'https://google.com',
method: 'POST',
headers: headers,
body : {
"arg_1": "a_string_key",
"arg_2": "a_string",
"arg_3": "a_string",
"arg_4": "some_value",
"arg_5": "some_string",
"arg_6": "<yyyy-mm-dd>",
"arg_7": "<yyyy-mm-dd>"
},
json: true
};
console.log('Before request');
async function main() {
try {
const response = await request.post(options);
if (response.statusCode === 200) {
console.log(response.body);
console.log('Success');
process.exit();
}
console.log(`Bad statusCode:${response.statusCode}`);
}
catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
}
main();
you can check-out the code below
a link to the code above, working on repl.it