'Promise' only refers to a type, but is being used as a value here. Do you need to change your target library? Try changing the `lib` compiler option to es2015 or later

#1

When using Promises I am getting below error

‘Promise’ only refers to a type, but is being used as a value here. Do you need to change your target library? Try changing the lib compiler option to es2015 or later.

#2

How do I resolve this error?

#3

@Sarang.Jaiswal Welcome to the community :slight_smile: I’m not familiar with this “Promise” error. Can you tell me which agent or product you are using?

#4

Hi @Sarang.Jaiswal, I’m guessing you are seeing this error when trying to use native promises in Synthetics scripts - please let me know if I’m mistaken.

In order to use native promises in Synthetics, you have to wrap it in $browser.executeScript . I’ve written an example which can be found here, as well as a couple of other options.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

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#5

Thus the reason we have a WONDERFUL support team. Thanks @daffinito!

#6

@daffinito Yes that is correct. I was getting the error while using the synthetics scripts. I am writing the scripts for testing API’s

do you have example for API’s?

Problem Statement: I have 2 API endpoint which are dependent on each other. the 1st endpoint returns the access token which is used in the 2nd endpoint to get the data.

is there a way to chain the request or controlling the sequence of send API request? I am guessing be default $http is async.

Thanks!

#7

Hi, @Sarang.Jaiswal: You may find this post helpful:

#8

In addition to @philweber’s solution of nesting the second request in the callback of the first, if you want to use promises, you could use Q in an API test. Here’s an example:

var Q = require('q');

var postWithPromise = function (opts) {
  var deferred = Q.defer();
  $http.post(opts, function (err, response, body) { deferred.resolve({ err: err, statusCode: response.statusCode, body: body }) } );
  return deferred.promise;
};

var firstRequestOpts = {
 uri: 'http://httpbin.org/post',
 json: {
      widgetType: 'gear',
      widgetCount: 10
    }
}

var secondRequestOpts = {
 uri: 'http://httpbin.org/post',
 json: {
      widgetType: 'gear',
      widgetCount: 5
    }
}

postWithPromise(firstRequestOpts).then(function (response) {
  console.log("1")
  console.log("err " + response.err)
  console.log("body " + JSON.stringify(response.body.json))
  console.log("body " + response.statusCode)
}).then(function() {
  return postWithPromise(secondRequestOpts)
}).then (function (response) {
  console.log("2")
  console.log("err " + response.err)
  console.log("body " + JSON.stringify(response.body.json))
  console.log("body " + response.statusCode)
})
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