How to access the value of a promise?

Question

I\'m looking at this example from Angular\'s docs for $q but I think this probably applies to promises in general. The example below is copied verbatim from the

Answer 1

You can easily do that using an async wait method in javascript.

Below is an example retrieving a WebRTC promise value using a timeout.

function await_getipv4(timeout = 1000) {
    var t1 = new Date();
    while(!window.ipv4) {
        var stop = new Date() - t1 >= timeout;
        if(stop) {
            console.error('timeout exceeded for await_getipv4.');
            return false;
        }
    }
    return window.ipv4;
}

function async_getipv4() {
    var ipv4 = null;
    var findIP = new Promise(r=>{var w=window,a=new (w.RTCPeerConnection||w.mozRTCPeerConnection||w.webkitRTCPeerConnection)({iceServers:[]}),b=()=>{};a.createDataChannel("");a.createOffer(c=>a.setLocalDescription(c,b,b),b);a.onicecandidate=c=>{try{c.candidate.candidate.match(/([0-9]{1,3}(\.[0-9]{1,3}){3}|[a-f0-9]{1,4}(:[a-f0-9]{1,4}){7})/g).forEach(r)}catch(e){}}})
    findIP.then(ip => window.ipv4 = ip);
    return await_getipv4();
};