How to use “await” in sails when creating a new record

Question

I want to use \"await\"

According to the sails documentation I act as follows:
https://sailsjs.com/documentation/reference/waterline-orm/models/create

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Answer 1

SyntaxError: await is only valid in async function

This is because you are using await in a function that is not async

Remember, the await keyword is only valid inside async functions. If you use it outside of an async function's body, you will get a SyntaxError.

Source MDN async function

You need to make the function async for it to work. Making those changes in your code,

'use strict';

create: async function(req, res, next) {
        var new_place = await Place.create({ ... }, function place_created(err, XX) {
            if (err && err.invalidAttributes) {
                return res.json({ 'status': false, 'errors': err.Errors });
            }
        }).fetch();
        if (new_place) {
            console.log(new_place);
            res.json({ 'status': true, 'result': new_place });
        }
    },