@google-cloud/promisify

What is @google-cloud/promisify?

@google-cloud/promisify is a utility library that helps convert callback-based functions to promise-based functions. This is particularly useful for modern JavaScript development where promises and async/await syntax are preferred over traditional callback patterns.

What are @google-cloud/promisify's main functionalities?

Promisify a single function

This feature allows you to convert a single callback-based function to a promise-based function. The code sample demonstrates how to use the `promisify` function to convert a traditional callback function into one that returns a promise.

const {promisify} = require('@google-cloud/promisify');

function callbackFunction(arg1, arg2, callback) {
  // Simulate an asynchronous operation
  setTimeout(() => {
    callback(null, 'result');
  }, 1000);
}

const promiseFunction = promisify(callbackFunction);

promiseFunction('arg1', 'arg2').then(result => {
  console.log(result); // 'result'
}).catch(err => {
  console.error(err);
});

Promisify all functions in an object

This feature allows you to promisify all functions in an object. The code sample demonstrates how to use the `promisifyAll` function to convert all callback-based functions in an object to promise-based functions, appending 'Async' to the function names.

const {promisifyAll} = require('@google-cloud/promisify');

const obj = {
  callbackFunction(arg1, arg2, callback) {
    setTimeout(() => {
      callback(null, 'result');
    }, 1000);
  }
};

promisifyAll(obj);

obj.callbackFunctionAsync('arg1', 'arg2').then(result => {
  console.log(result); // 'result'
}).catch(err => {
  console.error(err);
});

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bluebird

Bluebird is a fully-featured promise library that includes a `promisify` function to convert callback-based functions to promise-based ones. It offers more features and better performance compared to @google-cloud/promisify, but it is a larger library and may be overkill for simple use cases.

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README

Google Cloud Common Promisify: Node.js Client

A simple utility for promisifying functions and classes.

• Google Cloud Common Promisify Node.js Client API Reference

• github.com/googleapis/nodejs-promisify

Read more about the client libraries for Cloud APIs, including the older Google APIs Client Libraries, in Client Libraries Explained.

Table of contents:

• Quickstart

  • Installing the client library
  • Using the client library

• Samples

• Versioning

• Contributing

• License

Quickstart

Installing the client library

npm install @google-cloud/promisify

Using the client library

const {promisify} = require('@google-cloud/promisify');

/**
 * This is a very basic example function that accepts a callback.
 */
function someCallbackFunction(name, callback) {
  if (!name) {
    callback(new Error('Name is required!'));
  } else {
    callback(null, `Well hello there, ${name}!`);
  }
}

// let's promisify it!
const somePromiseFunction = promisify(someCallbackFunction);

async function quickstart() {
  // now we can just `await` the function to use it like a promisified method
  const [result] = await somePromiseFunction('nodestronaut');
  console.log(result);
}
quickstart();

It's unlikely you will need to install this package directly, as it will be installed as a dependency when you install other @google-cloud packages.

Samples

Samples are in the samples/ directory. The samples' README.md has instructions for running the samples.

Sample	Source Code	Try it
Quickstart	source code

The Google Cloud Common Promisify Node.js Client API Reference documentation also contains samples.

Supported Node.js Versions

Our client libraries follow the Node.js release schedule. Libraries are compatible with all current active and maintenance versions of Node.js.

Client libraries targetting some end-of-life versions of Node.js are available, and can be installed via npm dist-tags. The dist-tags follow the naming convention legacy-(version).

Legacy Node.js versions are supported as a best effort:

• Legacy versions will not be tested in continuous integration.
• Some security patches may not be able to be backported.
• Dependencies will not be kept up-to-date, and features will not be backported.

Legacy tags available

• legacy-8: install client libraries from this dist-tag for versions compatible with Node.js 8.

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning.

This library is considered to be General Availability (GA). This means it is stable; the code surface will not change in backwards-incompatible ways unless absolutely necessary (e.g. because of critical security issues) or with an extensive deprecation period. Issues and requests against GA libraries are addressed with the highest priority.

More Information: Google Cloud Platform Launch Stages

Contributing

Contributions welcome! See the Contributing Guide.

Please note that this README.md, the samples/README.md, and a variety of configuration files in this repository (including .nycrc and tsconfig.json) are generated from a central template. To edit one of these files, make an edit to its template in this directory.

License

Apache Version 2.0

See LICENSE

Changelog

2.0.1 (2020-05-08)

Bug Fixes

• apache license URL (#468) (#191) (0edc724)