The goal is to call a function from my main script that connects to a database, reads a document from it, stores pieces of that document in a new object, and returns that object to my main script. The problem is I cannot get it all to work together. If I try one thing, I get the results but my program locks up. If I try something else I get undefined results.
Long story short, how do I open a database and retrieve something from it to another script. The program is a quiz site and I want to return the quiz name and the questions.
const myDb = require('./app.js');
var myData = myDb.fun((myData) => {
console.log(myData.quizName);
});
Here is the script that tries to open the database and find the data
const { MongoClient } = require("mongodb");
const {mongoClient} = require("mongodb");
const uri = connection uri goes here but my name is hard coded into it at the moment so I removed for privacy
const client = new MongoClient(uri);
const fun = async (cback) => {
try {
await client.connect();
const database = client.db('Quiz-Capstone');
const quizzes = database.collection('Quiz');
const query = {quizName: "CIS01"};
const options = {
sort: {},
projection: {}
};
const quiz = await quizzes.findOne(query, options);
var quizObject = {
quizName: quiz.quizName,
quizQuestions: quiz.quizQuestions
}
//console.log(testOb);
} finally {
await client.close();
cback(quizObject);
}
}
fun().catch(console.dir);
module.exports = {
fun: fun
}
UPDATE: Still stuck. I have read several different threads here about asynchronous calls and callbacks but I cannot get my function located in one file to return a value to the caller located in another file.