Meteor : Retrieve value in Meteor.call which calls a server method having promise

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OP @ SO : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39557426/meteor-retrieve-value-in-meteor-call-which-calls-a-server-method-having-promis

Brevity’s sake, pasting the question here:

I have an internally maintained npm package myNpmPackage which exports a function (for e.g. fnTestMicroSerConn ) as below:

const rp = require('request-promise-native')

exports.fnTestMicroSerConn = function () {
  return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
    var options = {
      method: 'GET',
      uri : "http://example.net", 
      resolveWithFullResponse: true,
    }
    rp(options)
      .then(function (response) {
        if (response.statusCode !== 200){
          console.error("http not 200 but : ",response.statusCode)
          resolve(false)
        } else  {
          console.info("connected successfully : "+response.body)
          resolve(response)
        }
      })
      .catch(function (err) {
          console.error("Error in establishing connectivity  : ",err)
          resolve(false)
      })
    })
}

I then need to call the above exported function from a Meteor method like so:

import { Meteor } from 'meteor/meteor';
import myNpmPackage from 'myNpmPackage';

Meteor.methods({   
 foo: function () {
   myNpmPackage.fnTestMicroSerConn().then(function (response){
     console.log(" My response: ",response.body);
    return(response.body)
   })
 }
});

console.log(" My response: ",response.body); gets executed successfully and I can see the expected value in the server console log. So till here it’s good.

However, now I want to pass the value of response.body to the client side. In short, when I do below on the client :

Meteor.call("foo", function (err, response) {
      console.log("calling foo");
      if(!err){
        console.log("response : ",response);
      } else {
        console.log("err : ",err);
      }
    })

Unfortunately, currently I am getting undefined on the client for console.log("response : ",response);

Note: I am using the Meteor Promise package from here

Let me know if any more details are needed or any thing is unclear. I am very new to the Promise style of coding, hence, this can sound as a noob question.

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Meteor methods resolve Promises before returning data to the client, so all you need to do is:

Meteor.methods({   
  foo: function () {
    return myNpmPackage.fnTestMicroSerConn();
  }
});