I'm calling data from an API and have a resolver that looks like this:
Query: {
async getSomething(parent, args, ctx, info) {
const kek = yada.aol.emails(function (err, res) {
return[{name: "lmao"}]
// returns null every time
})
return [{name: "lol"}]
// returns correctly
},
},
However, the data I need to return would be the response within the function. I was wondering as to why anything I return that's nested in that function returns null and how I can continue to shape the data appropriately?
The namecheap.domains.getList function is asynchronous. Your last return is executed before the callback function (err, res) {}. You need to return a Promise.
Either namecheap.domains.getList supports Promises and you can return it directly (but I don't know what that is), or you can make the callback function resolve a Promise:
Query: {
getDomains(parent, args, ctx, info) {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
namecheap.domains.getList((err, res) => {
if (err) return reject(err);
resolve(res);
})
});
},
},