Pausing a block of code from being run in google cloud functions/Dialogflow

Question

I am using pusher to listen to a particular event being sent from another server.

I have successfully bind to the event but my problem is the code moves past the binding and executes the rest of the code.

I have tried using Await but that doesn't help also

I can't use setTimeout because the message to be received in the pusher event is determined by if the user completes payment.

The code

await pusher.bind(trans_id, function(data) {
        if (data.message === 'success') {
            agent.add('Transaction was successful');
        } else {
            agent.add('Transaction was unsuccessful');
        }
    });

    agent.add('Transaction Successful');

    console.log('We got here');

As you can see, the code is not waiting for the pusher.bind to execute, it jumps straight to the next agent.add and console.log

Environment: Google Cloud Functions

The code is for DialogFlow

Any help please

Please don't show screenshots of code. It's better to copy the code into the question so it's easier to search and read. — Doug Stevenson, Oct 20 '18 at 17:13
which version of node.js you are using in firebase functions ? If version is Node 6 you can change the node version to 8 which is in beta right now or you can use babel to support async await in node 6.0 — Aniket Pawar, Oct 22 '18 at 06:14

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 22 '18 at 14:02

Just continue your program logic inside the callback. pusher.bind finishes execution very quickly, it's the callback that gets executed later.

pusher.bind(trans_id, function(data) {
        if (data.message === 'success') {
            agent.add('Transaction was successful');
        } else {
            agent.add('Transaction was unsuccessful');
        }

        console.log('We got here');
    });

Pausing a block of code from being run in google cloud functions/Dialogflow

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