I have a for loop array of promises, so I used Promise.all to go through them and called then afterwards.
let promises = [];
promises.push(promise1);
promises.push(promise2);
promises.push(promise3);
Promise.all(promises).then((responses) => {
for (let i = 0; i < promises.length; i++) {
if (promise.property === something) {
//do something
} else {
let file = fs.createWriteStream('./hello.pdf');
let stream = responses[i].pipe(file);
/*
I WANT THE PIPING AND THE FOLLOWING CODE
TO RUN BEFORE NEXT ITERATION OF FOR LOOP
*/
stream.on('finish', () => {
//extract the text out of the pdf
extract(filePath, {splitPages: false}, (err, text) => {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
arrayOfDocuments[i].text_contents = text;
}
});
});
}
}
promise1, promise2, and promise3 are some http requests, and if one of them is an application/pdf, then I write it to a stream and parse the text out of it. But this code runs the next iteration before parsing the test out of the pdf. Is there a way to make the code wait until the piping to the stream and extracting are finished before moving on to the next iteration?
Without async/await, it's quite nasty. With async/await, just do this:
Promise.all(promises).then(async (responses) => {
for (...) {
await new Promise(fulfill => stream.on("finish", fulfill));
//extract the text out of the PDF
}
})