async/await actions in Vuex

Question

I am wondering how to use async/await actions in Vuex. The docs provide this syntax as an example:

actions: {
  async actionA ({ commit }) {
    commit('gotData', await getData())
  },
  async actionB ({ dispatch, commit }) {
    await dispatch('actionA') // wait for `actionA` to finish
    commit('gotOtherData', await getOtherData())
  }
}

Following this example, I have:

import Vue from 'vue';
import Vuex from 'vuex';
import * as firebase from 'firebase';

Vue.use(Vuex);

export const store = new Vuex.Store({
    state: {
        // other state vars here
        resource: null
    },
    mutations: {
        // saveValues
        setResource(state, payload) {
            state.resource = payload;
        }
    },
    actions: {
        async getResource({ commit, dispatch }) {
            var resource
            console.log('resource1: ' + resource)
            Vue.http.get('https://mysite/api/getResource')
                .then((response) => {
                    console.log('get resource')
                    var data = response.body;
                    resource = data.access_resource;
                    console.log('resource2: '+ resource)
                    commit('setResource', resource);
                    var foo = store.getters.resource;
                    console.log('resource3: ' + foo);
                }, (error) => {
                    console.log(error);
                });
        },
        async getSomeApi({ commit, dispatch }) {
            console.log('getting api');
            await dispatch('getResource');
            var resource = store.getters.resource;
            console.log('resource4: ' + resource);
            Vue.http.get('https://somesite/api/someapi?resource=' + resource)
                .then((response) => {
                    console.log("got something from somesite")
                    var data = response.body;
                    // do something with data -> payload
                    dispatch('saveValues', payload);
                }, (error) => {
                    console.log(error);
                });
        }
    },
    getters: {
        resource(state) {
            return state.resource;
        }
    }
});

However, even following the syntax example found in the docs, when I run this code, the async/await seem to be completely ignored. When I look at the logs, I see, in the following order:

• getting api
• resource1: undefined
• resource4: null
• get resource
• resource2: <expected-value>
• resource3: <expected-value>

I expect the console.log statements to print out in numerical order. I would appreciate if someone could clarify what I am doing wrong.

Answer 1

You're not awaiting the Vue.http.get() promise in the getResource() method, so await dispatch('getResource') will resolve before the HTTP request has resolved.

Trimmed down:

async getResource() {
    let response

    try {
        response = await Vue.http.get('https://mysite/api/getResource')
    } catch (ex) {
        // Handle error
        return
    }

    // Handle success
    const data = response.body
}