Request object appears in result

1

Why request object appears in result console?

const request = require('request')

var uri = 'http://v2.convertapi.com/token/create?secret=nop'

request.post(uri, function(err, response, body) {
    console.log(JSON.parse(response.body)) 
})
2

RunKit captures and displays the result of the last expression in a cell. In this example the last expression is the result of request.post(), which apparently returns the request object.

You could also do 1+1 at the end of a cell and see 2, even though you didn’t explicitly log it. Basically, it works the same as your regular Node REPL.

3

RunKit captures and displays the result of the last expression in a cell.

This is not so easy to do when NodeJS propose asynchronous programming. I see no way to do that using request module because it’s not implements promises and do not support await.

I am new to JSNode things, maybe you have idea how to “hide” request object and only display response?

4

Hi convertapi,

What you want to do is use a library that supports async/await. For example, got:

var got = require("got");

(await got.post('http://v2.convertapi.com/token/create?secret=nop'), { json: true }).body;

This will do exactly what you want and fetch the data but wait to display the result.

Let me know if you need any more help!

Thanks,

Francisco