I have created nodejs application by organising as module structure , The problem I am facing is that a mongodb insertion return undefined value from one of my controller, The issue I found is that my async funtion doesn't wait to complete my mongodb operation But I could not find a solution for that, my route and controller code is given below
route.js
const {
createEvent, editEvent
} = require('./controller');
router.post("/event/create", validateEventManage, isRequestValidated, async(req, res) => {
let data = {};
data.body = req.body;
try{
let event = await createEvent(req.body);
console.log(event) // returned undefined
data.event = event;
res.status(200).json(data);
}catch(error){
console.log(error)
res.status(200).json({error:error});
}
});
controller.js
exports.createEvent = async(data) => {
// return "test" // This works correctly
const eventObj = {
name : data.name,
description : data.desc,
type : data.type,
startDate : new Date()
}
const event = await new Event(eventObj);
await event.save((error,event)=>{
if(error) {
return error;
}
if(event){
return event;
}
});
}
You should not await the new Event constructor.
Also, since you are using async - await you can
remove the callback from the save and try ... catch the error to handle it:
exports.createEvent = async (data) => {
// return "test" // This works correctly
const eventObj = {
name: data.name,
description: data.desc,
type: data.type,
startDate: new Date(),
};
try {
const event = new Event(eventObj);
await event.save();
return event;
} catch (error) {
return error;
}
};