How do you run async validator on a permission or collection hook?

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Okay so I have a collection called Addresses. I only want to allow a user to insert into this collection under two conditions:

  • The userId field matches their userId
  • The geo-lookup of the given address is valid.

I am having trouble actually denying it and responding with the appropriate error. I use node-easypost to check the geolocation.

import Promise from "bluebird";
import {check} from "meteor/check";
import {Addresses} from "/collections/addresses";

const Easypost = require('node-easypost')(process.env.EASYPOST_KEY);

export async function validateAddress(address) {
  check(address, Addresses.simpleSchema());
  const createAndVerifyAsync = Promise.promisify(Easypost.Address.create_and_verify);
  try {
    return await createAndVerifyAsync(address);
  } catch (e) {
    throw new Meteor.Error(e.message.code, e.message.message);  // easypost has weird error responses.
  }
}

// tried with both `allow` and `.before.insert`
Addresses.before.insert(async function (userId, doc) {
  try {
    await validateAddress(doc);
  } catch (e) {
    return false;
  }
});

But this doesn’t seem to work. Is there a way to add async rejection to updating and inserting into a collection?