Promise not executing then outside but it is inside the function

Question

I am using a promise to dispatch an asynchronous action in react. I just want to change the properties of an object. The function works. If I wrap the code in a promise and after doing Promise().then works but if I do myFunction(params).then() the then is not called here is my function. (It is recursive):

export function setValue(propertyPath, value, obj) {
  console.log("setting the value")
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
      // this is a super simple parsing, you will want to make this more complex to handle correctly any path
      // it will split by the dots at first and then simply pass along the array (on next iterations)
      let properties = Array.isArray(propertyPath) ? propertyPath : propertyPath.split(".")

      // Not yet at the last property so keep digging
      if (properties.length > 1) {
        // The property doesn't exists OR is not an object (and so we overwrite it) so we create it
        if (!obj.hasOwnProperty(properties[0]) || typeof obj[properties[0]] !== "object") obj[properties[0]] = {}
        // We iterate.
        return setValue(properties.slice(1), value, obj[properties[0]])
        // This is the last property - the one where to set the value
      } else {
        // We set the value to the last property
        obj[properties[0]] = value
        console.log("modified object")
        console.log(obj)
        return resolve(obj)
      }
    }
  )
}

export function performPocoChange(propertyPath, value, obj) {
  console.log("we are indeed here")
  return (dispatch) => {
    setValue(propertyPath, value, obj).then((poco) => {
      console.log("poco is here")
      console.log(poco)
      dispatch(changePoco(poco))
    })
  }
}

the console shows "we are indeed here" but not "Poco is here" and changePoco (that is the action) is not called. However if I do a then right after the brackets of the promises and log it shows the log.

I am not an expert in JS. I am trying really hard and this really got me. Any ideas?

Many thanks in advance

Answer 1

You are not resolveing the promise except in the else so the then doesn't get executed.