I'm very new to js and I'm learning Nestjs. I'm building an API to work with the Vimeo API using their Vimeo lib. To upload a video, the Vimeo class has a method called upload:
upload(
file: string | File,
params: object,
completeCallback: UriCallback,
progressCallback: ProgressCallback | undefined,
errorCallback: ErrorCallback,
): void;
upload(
file: string | File,
completeCallback: UriCallback,
progressCallback: ProgressCallback | undefined,
errorCallback: ErrorCallback,
): void;
On my service, I used it like:
async uploadVideo(@Body() video: UploadVideoDto): Promise<string> {
let videoUri: string;
this.client.upload(
video.pathToFile,
{
name: video.name,
description: video.description,
},
function (uri) {
console.log(uri);
videoUri = uri;
},
function (bytesUploaded, bytesTotal) {
console.log(bytesUploaded, bytesTotal);
},
function (error) {
throw new Error(error);
},
);
return videoUri;
}
The function (uri) { console.log(uri) }
is the callback function when the upload finishes and it gives the uri that the video was uploaded to. I tried to get it on my controller, like this:
@Post('/upload')
async upload(@Body() video: UploadVideoDto) {
await this.appService.uploadVideo(video).then(function (uri): void {
console.log(uri);
});
}
The problem is that the console.log(uri) always prints undefined. How can I get that callback return from my service to my controller?
if uploadVideo
should return a Promise that resolves to an string (the uri
), it could be like this:
async uploadVideo(video: UploadVideoDto): Promise<string> {
return new Promise<string>((resolve, reject) => {
this.client.upload(
video.pathToFile,
{
name: video.name,
description: video.description,
},
function (uri) {
resolve(uri)
},
function (bytesUploaded, bytesTotal) {
console.log(bytesUploaded, bytesTotal);
},
function (error) {
reject(error)
},
);
})
}
Learn about JS async/await feature.