nodejs wait for exec in function

Question

I like to integrate exec from nodejs in a custom function to handle all the errors in this one function.

const exec = require(\'child_process\').exec;

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Answer 1

exec will deal with it in an async fashion, so you should receive a callback or return a promise.

One thing you could do in order to make it sync is to use execSync instead:

https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#child_process_child_process_execsync_command_options

The child_process.execSync() method is generally identical to child_process.exec() with the exception that the method will not return until the child process has fully closed. When a timeout has been encountered and killSignal is sent, the method won't return until the process has completely exited. Note that if the child process intercepts and handles the SIGTERM signal and doesn't exit, the parent process will wait until the child process has exited.

Answer 2

you can use promise as :

const exec = require('child_process').exec;

function os_func() {
    this.execCommand = function (cmd) {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject)=> {
           exec(cmd, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
             if (error) {
                reject(error);
                return;
            }
            resolve(stdout)
           });
       })
   }
}
var os = new os_func();

os.execCommand('pwd').then(res=> {
    console.log("os >>>", res);
}).catch(err=> {
    console.log("os >>>", err);
})

Answer 3

You can do it with callback. Maybe you can try something like this:

function os_func() {
this.execCommand = function(cmd, myCallback) {
    var ret;
    exec(cmd, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
        if (error) {
            console.error(`exec error: ${error}`);
            return;
        }
        ret = stdout;
        myCallback(ret);

    });
}


function myCallback(ret){
      // TODO: your stuff with return value...
}

Answer 4

Since the command is executed asynchronously you will want to use a callback to handle the return value once the command has finished executing:

const exec = require('child_process').exec;

function os_func() {
    this.execCommand = function(cmd, callback) {
        exec(cmd, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
            if (error) {
                console.error(`exec error: ${error}`);
                return;
            }

            callback(stdout);
        });
    }
}
var os = new os_func();

os.execCommand('SomeCommand', function (returnvalue) {
    // Here you can get the return value
});