How to use the output from a function of a module in another module

Question

How to use the output from a function of a module in another module

I have a mdoule, where i create a db connection and a function which runs a query. I want to use the output of this query in another module. How do I do this?

The query is supposed to return the value from the key-value pair (hello:world). However, everytime I try to use the variable in another module, I end up with "true" instead of "world".

my code is here https://github.com/rishavs/RedisDbConnect

I want to call the getValue function from app.js and maybe console.log(db.getValue()) the output.

javascript
node.js
redis

Answer 1

You can't return value from async function like from sync. You need to use callback way. Modify your code like this:

getValue function:

var getValue = function(cb) {
    dbConnection.get("hello", function (err, reply) {
        var val = reply ? reply.toString() : null;
        cb(err, val);
    });
};

Controller:

app.get('/json', function(req, res, next) {
    res.contentType('application/json');
    db.getValue(function(err, val) {
        if (err) return next(err);
        res.send(val);  
    });
});