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testing fastapi response to next.js with fetch, promise stuck in pending?

my fetch is stuck in pending when I query a fastapi endpoint in local dev.
followed this blog and a few others - https://damaris-goebel.medium.com/promise-pending-60482132574d
Using this fetch code (having simplified it drastically just to get a simple solution working)
function fastapiRequest(path) {
return fetch(`${path}`)
.then((response) => {
return response;
}
);
into a constant variable i.e.,
const xxxx = fastapiRequest(
`http://0.0.0.0:8008/xcascasc/Dexaa/Emo.json?Magic=Dexxaa&emotion=expressions`
);
Ideally I want to use UseSWR to do this as I'm using next.js, but first of all, just need it to work :)
A postman query like this works fine to return a value
curl --location --request GET 'http://0.0.0.0:8008/xcaxc/dexxa/emo.json?analysis=statistical&substance=dexxa&emo=powa' \
--header 'x_token: 13wdxaxacxasdc1'
the value is left like this in console.log
data show here? Promise {<pending>}
With the initial response being
Response {type: 'cors', url: 'url', redirected: false, status: 200, ok: true, …}
Update based on answers.
Using each of the proposed answers, I am still not getting the data returned appropriately. i.e.,
function fastApiRequest(path) {
console.log("really begins here");
return fetch(`${path}`, { mode: 'cors' })
.then((response) => {
console.log('response', response);
return response.json();
})
.catch((err) => {
throw err;
});
}
async function test() {
console.log('begins');
return await fastApiRequest(
`http://0.0.0.0:8008/xxxx/dex/adea.json?deaed=adedea&adee=deaed&adeada=adeeda`
);
}
const ansa = test();
Is giving a response of pending at the moment.
The backend is built with fastapi, with these CORS, I'm wondering if I need to give it more time to get the data? (postman works fine :/)
def get_db():
try:
db = SessionLocal()
yield db
finally:
db.close()
origins = [
"http://moodmap.app",
"http://localhost:3000/dashboard/MoodMap",
"http://localhost:3000",
"http://localhost",
"http://localhost:8080",
]
app.add_middleware(
CORSMiddleware,
allow_origins=origins,
allow_credentials=True,
allow_methods=["*"],
allow_headers=["*"],
max_age=3600,
)
I am running the fastapi code in a docker container as well btw

As per Documentation
The Response object, in turn, does not directly contain the actual JSON response body but is instead a representation of the entire HTTP response. So, to extract the JSON body content from the Response object, we use the json() method, which returns a second promise that resolves with the result of parsing the response body text as JSON.
.json() is an async method (it returns a Promise itself), so you have to assign the parsed value in the next .then(). So your code can be changed like this.
function fastApiRequest(path) {
let res;
fetch(`${path}`)
.then((response) => response.json())
.then((data) => (res = data))
.then(() => console.log(res));
return res;
}
response = fastApiRequest('https://proton.api.atomicassets.io/atomicassets/v1/accounts?limit=10');
console.log('response')
If you want to use async/await approach, below is the code.
async function fastApiRequest(path) {
try {
const response = await fetch(path);
const data = await response.json();
return data;
} catch (error) {
console.error(error);
}
}
async function test() {
console.log(await fastApiRequest('https://proton.api.atomicassets.io/atomicassets/v1/accounts?limit=10'))
}
test()

first you need to parse the response into json if it's a json API.
function fastapiRequest(path) {
return fetch(`${path}`)
.then((response) => {
return response.json();
});
}
you need to 'await' for the rsponse
you need to write the below code in an async function
const xxxx = await fastapiRequest(
`http://0.0.0.0:8008/xcascasc/Dexaa/Emo.json?Magic=Dexxaa&emotion=expressions`
);
When you make an http request using fetch in javascript it will return a Promise, it's not stuck it's just need to be resloved, you can resolve it just like the above code with async await, or you can use the .then(() => { /* code... */ }) function, you can also use .catch(() => { /* handle error... */ }) function to handle errors.

In Your curl you use x_token as header variable, if it's required you need to pass a header with your path too. All other answers are valid too.

JavaScript: Is there a way to detect if a response contains error messages in json format when it is not ok

I am writing a simple wrapper around fetch.
async function apiCall(
endpoint: string,
{
data,
headers: customHeaders,
...customConfig
}: { data?: Object; headers?: Object } = {}
) {
const config = {
method: data ? 'POST' : 'GET',
body: data ? JSON.stringify(data) : undefined,
headers: {
'content-type': data ? 'application/json' : undefined,
...customHeaders,
},
...customConfig,
}
return fetch(endpoint, config as any).then(async (response) => {
if (response.ok) {
const json = await response.json() // 🤔
return json
} else {
// 👇 🚨 what if `response` contains error messages in json format?
return Promise.reject(new Error('Unknown Error'))
}
})
}
it works fine. The problem is with this snippet
return fetch(endpoint, config as any).then(async (response) => {
if (response.ok) {
const json = await response.json()
return json
} else {
// 👇 🚨 what if `response` contains error messages in json format?
return Promise.reject(new Error('Unknown Error'))
}
})
if response is not ok, it rejects with a generic Error. This is because by default, window.fetch will only reject a promise if the actual network request failed. But the issue is that, even if response is not ok, it might still be able to have error messages in json format. This depends on the backend implementation details but sometimes you are able to get the error messages in the response body by response.json(). Now this use case is not covered in the wrapper I built.
So I wonder how I am going to be able to account for that? I guess you can do something like
fetch(endpoint, config as any).then(async (response) => {
if (response.ok) {
const json = await response.json()
return json
} else {
try {
const json = await response.json()
return Promise.reject(json)
} catch {
return Promise.reject(new Error('Unknown Error'))
}
}
})
but I wonder if there is some more elegant way to do that?
Lastly, I am very aware of libraries like Axios. I built this partly to satisfy my intellectual curiosity.
Btw, a lightly unrelated question but I wonder if these two are equivalent
if (response.ok) {
const json = await response.json()
return json
}
if (response.ok) {
return response.json()
}
Someone flagged my question as a duplicate of this question. In fact they are not the same. I did not make the same assumption as that question did about the API call returning JSON data both on success and on failure. My question is about exactly how we should do in cases where we cannot make such an assumption.

That the response is not ok doesn't prevent you from consuming its body as JSON so your last snippet is indeed how it should be handled.
Now you ask for something "more elegant", well it may not be more elegant but a less redundant way to write the same would be:
fetch(endpoint, config as any).then(async (response) => {
if (response.ok) {
return response.json(); // there is no need to await the return value
}
else {
const err_message = await response.json() // either we have a message
.catch( () => new Error( "Unknown Error" ) ); // or we make one
return Promise.reject( err_message );
}
})
And regarding the last question, yes both are equivalent, the await version doing one more round-trip through the microtask-queue and making your code a bit longer, but for all that matters we could say they are the same.

I'd simplify Kaiido even further, fix some bugs, and add a custom error handler.
class ApiCallError extends Error {
response: Response;
body: any;
httpStatus: number;
constructor(response, body) {
super('HTTP error: ' + response.status);
this.httpStatus = response.status;
this.response = response;
this.body = body;
}
}
async function apiCall(endpoint: string, options?: any) {
const config = {
// do your magic here
}
const response = await fetch(endpoint, config);
if (!response.ok) {
throw new ApiCallError(response, await response.json());
}
return response.json();
}
Changes:
You don't need to catch errors if you're just going to throw again.
You don't need .then() if you support await, and this will make your code a lot simpler.
There's really no point in Promise.resolve and Promise.reject, you can just return or throw.
You should not return plain errors, you should throw them (or make sure they are wrapped in a rejecting promise)
Even though in javascript you can 'throw anything' including strings and arbitrary objects, it's better to throw something that is or extends Error, because this will give you a stack trace.
Making all the error information available on the custom error class provides everything a user of apiCall could possibly need.

Fetch returns promise when I expect an array

I am doing a simple api get request, but I can't seem to isolate the array on its own. its always inside of a promise and I'm not sure how to remove it or how to access the values stored in the array.
function getLocation(name) {
let output = fetch(`http://dataservice.accuweather.com/locations/v1/cities/search?apikey=oqAor7Al7Fkcj7AudulUkk5WGoySmEu7&q=london`).then(data => data.json());
return output
}
function App() {
var output = getLocation(`london`);
console.log (output)
...
__proto__: Promise
[[PromiseStatus]]: "resolved"
[[PromiseValue]]: Array(3)
is what is displayed in the console.log I require just the Array(3)

fetch, and Promise#then, always return a promise. To access the information it fetches, consume the promise:
getLocation()
.then(data => {
// use the data
})
.catch(error => {
// Handle/report the error
});
or in an async function:
const data = await getLocation();
Side note: Your getLocation has a very common error (so common I wrote it up on my anemic little blog): It doesn't check that the HTTP operation succeeded. fetch only fails on network errors, not HTTP errors. To fix it:
function getLocation(name) {
return fetch(`http://dataservice.accuweather.com/locations/v1/cities/search?apikey=oqAor7Al7Fkcj7AudulUkk5WGoySmEu7&q=london`)
.then(response => {
if (!response.ok) {
throw new Error("HTTP error, status = " + response.status);
}
return response.json();
});
}

fetch response.json() and response.status

Is this the only way to use the body.json() and also get the status code?
let status;
return fetch(url)
.then((response => {
status = response.status;
return response.json()
})
.then(response => {
return {
response: response,
status: status
}
});
This doesn't work as it returns a promise in the response field:
.then((response)=> {return {response: response.json(), status: response.status}})

Your status is not visible in the second then. You can just get the two properties in the single then.
json() returns a new Promise to you, so you need to create your object inside the then of the result of that function. If you return a Promise from a function, it will be fulfilled and will return the result of the fulfillment - in our case the object.
fetch("https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1")
.then(r => r.json().then(data => ({status: r.status, body: data})))
.then(obj => console.log(obj));

The .json method returns a promise, not the parsed value itself. If you want to access both the response and the parsed value in the same callback, you'll need to use nested functions like this:
fetch(url)
.then(response => {
response.json().then(parsedValue => {
// code that can access both here
})
});
Alternatively, you can use await inside an asynchronous function to eliminate the need for callbacks.
const response = await fetch(url);
const parsedValue = await response.json();
// code that can access both here
Of course, you'll want to check for errors, either with a .catch(...) call on a Promise or with a try...catch block in an async function. You could make a function that handles JSON and error cases, and then reuse it for all fetches. For example, something like this:
function handle(response) {
if (response.ok) {
return response.json().then(parsedValue => {
// the status was ok and the body could be parsed
return Promise.resolve({ response, parsedValue });
}).catch(err => {
// the status was ok but the body was empty or not JSON
return Promise.resolve({ response });
});
} else {
return response.json().catch(err => {
// the status was not ok and the body was unobtainable/empty/not JSON
throw new Error(response.statusText);
}).then(parsedValue => {
// the status was not ok and the body was JSON
throw new Error(parsedValue.error.message); // assuming an error message is returned by our REST API
});
}
}
I don't think it's the best design pattern, but hopefully this clarifies how the fetch API works.
PS: I avoided naming any variable or property json since that is the name of the text format. Once it's been parsed, it is no longer JSON.

Using two 'then's seem unnecessary to me.
async/await could get the job done pretty easily.
fetch('http://test.com/getData')
.then( async (response) => {
// get json response here
let data = await response.json();
if(data.status === 200){
// Process data here
}else{
// Rest of status codes (400,500,303), can be handled here appropriately
}
})
.catch((err) => {
console.log(err);
})

Did you try this?
return fetch(url)
.then((r)=> {return {response: r.json(), status: r.status}})

I think the cleanest way is to create a Promise.all() with the pieces you need.
.then(response => Promise.all([Promise.resolve(response.ok), response.text()]))
Which can be written shorter as
.then(response => Promise.all([response.ok, response.text()]))
The promise returns an array with all of the results
.then(data => ({ status: data[0], response: data[1] }))

Reading the body returned for fetch() response which contains an HTTP error code [duplicate]

I have an HTTP API that returns JSON data both on success and on failure.
An example failure would look like this:
~ ◆ http get http://localhost:5000/api/isbn/2266202022
HTTP/1.1 400 BAD REQUEST
Content-Length: 171
Content-Type: application/json
Server: TornadoServer/4.0
{
"message": "There was an issue with at least some of the supplied values.",
"payload": {
"isbn": "Could not find match for ISBN."
},
"type": "validation"
}
What I want to achieve in my JavaScript code is something like this:
fetch(url)
.then((resp) => {
if (resp.status >= 200 && resp.status < 300) {
return resp.json();
} else {
// This does not work, since the Promise returned by `json()` is never fulfilled
return Promise.reject(resp.json());
}
})
.catch((error) => {
// Do something with the error object
}

// This does not work, since the Promise returned by `json()` is never fulfilled
return Promise.reject(resp.json());
Well, the resp.json promise will be fulfilled, only Promise.reject doesn't wait for it and immediately rejects with a promise.
I'll assume that you rather want to do the following:
fetch(url).then((resp) => {
let json = resp.json(); // there's always a body
if (resp.status >= 200 && resp.status < 300) {
return json;
} else {
return json.then(Promise.reject.bind(Promise));
}
})
(or, written explicitly)
return json.then(err => {throw err;});

Here's a somewhat cleaner approach that relies on response.ok and makes use of the underlying JSON data instead of the Promise returned by .json().
function myFetchWrapper(url) {
return fetch(url).then(response => {
return response.json().then(json => {
return response.ok ? json : Promise.reject(json);
});
});
}
// This should trigger the .then() with the JSON response,
// since the response is an HTTP 200.
myFetchWrapper('http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=Brooklyn,NY').then(console.log.bind(console));
// This should trigger the .catch() with the JSON response,
// since the response is an HTTP 400.
myFetchWrapper('https://content.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search').catch(console.warn.bind(console));

The solution above from Jeff Posnick is my favourite way of doing it, but the nesting is pretty ugly.
With the newer async/await syntax we can do it in a more synchronous looking way, without the ugly nesting that can quickly become confusing.
async function myFetchWrapper(url) {
const response = await fetch(url);
const json = await response.json();
return response.ok ? json : Promise.reject(json);
}
This works because, an async function always returns a promise and once we have the JSON we can then decide how to return it based on the response status (using response.ok).
You would error handle the same way as you would in Jeff's answer, however you could also use try/catch, an error handling higher order function, or with some modification to prevent the promise rejecting you can use my favourite technique that ensures error handling is enforced as part of the developer experience.
const url = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=Brooklyn,NY'
// Example with Promises
myFetchWrapper(url)
.then((res) => ...)
.catch((err) => ...);
// Example with try/catch (presuming wrapped in an async function)
try {
const data = await myFetchWrapper(url);
...
} catch (err) {
throw new Error(err.message);
}
Also worth reading MDN - Checking that the fetch was successful for why we have to do this, essentially a fetch request only rejects with network errors, getting a 404 is not a network error.

I found my solution at MDN:
function fetchAndDecode(url) {
return fetch(url).then(response => {
if(!response.ok) {
throw new Error(`HTTP error! status: ${response.status}`);
} else {
return response.blob();
}
})
}
let coffee = fetchAndDecode('coffee.jpg');
let tea = fetchAndDecode('tea.jpg');
Promise.any([coffee, tea]).then(value => {
let objectURL = URL.createObjectURL(value);
let image = document.createElement('img');
image.src = objectURL;
document.body.appendChild(image);
})
.catch(e => {
console.log(e.message);
});

Maybe this option can be valid
new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
fetch(url)
.then(async (response) => {
const data = await response.json();
return { statusCode: response.status, body: data };
})
.then((response) => {
if (response.statusCode >= 200 && response.statusCode < 300) {
resolve(response.body);
} else {
reject(response.body);
}
})
});