I'm trying to return the list created with the value received from API to where it was called. I'm using Promise to make sure the function returns the value after it gets the value from calling API. To better explain with the code, I have a function callAPI that calls getNamedEntity. Ultimately, I want callAPI to receive the result of request.post() in getNamedEntity. However, I get Promise object and undefined when I test with console.log("outside " + result) and console.log("inside doRequest " + result) inside each function respectively.

function callAPI(text) {
    const result = getNamedEntity(text);
    console.log("outside " + result);
}

async function getNamedEntity(text) {
  var requestJson = {
      ...
  };

  var options = {
      ...
  };

  function doRequest(options) {
    return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
      request.post(options, function (error, response, body) {
        if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
          const result = resolve(body);
          console.log("inside doRequest " + result);
        } else {
          reject(error);
        }
      });
    });
  }

  doRequest(options)
    .then((body) => {
      var entityList = [];
      const obj = JSON.parse(body);
      const words = obj.return_object.sentence[0].NE;
      for (var word of words) {
        entityList.push(word.text);
      }
      return entityList;
    })
    .catch((error) => {
      console.log(error);
    });
}

outside [object Promise]
inside doRequest undefined