Async / Waiting and Recursion

Question

I'm trying to code a method that recursively displays ActionSheetIOS to select the value contained in arrays and return the selected values:

async function _rescursiveSelect(data, index) {
  if (index < data.length) {
    const object = data[index];

    if (object.array.length === 1) {
      return await _rescursiveSelect(data, index + 1);
    }

    ActionSheetIOS.showActionSheetWithOptions({
      title: 'Choose a value from array: ',
      options: object.array,
    },
    buttonIndex => async function() {
      const selectedValue = data[index].array[buttonIndex];
      data[index].value = selectedValue;
      delete data[index].array;

      return await _rescursiveSelect(data, index + 1);
    });
  } else {
    return data;
  }
}

Unfortunately, when I call this method, it returns undefined. I assume the problem comes from using async / await, but I haven't created one yet.

Any suggestion?

Answer 1

It returns undefinedbecause there is a path in which there is no instruction return. The template async-awaitworks great with asynchronous functions, but ActionSheetIOS.showActionSheetWithOptionsit is not async.

- , Promise. async - , , .

, , , async, Promise, :

function showActionSheetWithOptionsAsync(options) {
    return new Promise(resolve => { 
        // resolve is a function, it can be supplied as callback parameter 
        ActionSheetIOS.showActionSheetWithOptions(options, resolve);
    });
}

async function _rescursiveSelect(data, index) {
    if (index < data.length) {
        const object = data[index];

        if (object.array.length === 1) {
            return await _rescursiveSelect(data, index + 1);
        }

        const buttonIndex = await showActionSheetWithOptionsAsync({
            title: 'Choose a value from array: ',
            options: object.array
        });
        const selectedValue = data[index].array[buttonIndex];
        data[index].value = selectedValue;
        delete data[index].array;
        return await _rescursiveSelect(data, index + 1);
    } else {
        return data;
    }
}