Return array of ids from sqlite3 database using node-sqlite3

Question

I want to build an array of ids from a sqlite query using the node-sqlite3 library.

const sqlite3 = require('sqlite3')
const db = new sqlite3.Database('./db/database-name.db')

let ids = () => {
  let sql = `select id from users;`
  let result = []
  db.each(sql, (err, row) => {
    // console.log(row.id)
    result.push(row.id)
  })
  return result
}

console.log(ids())

The console.log() statement prints an empty array. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I was able to achieve the desired result by wrapping the call to db.each with a Promise:

const selectIds = () => {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    let result = []
    db.each(`select id from users;`, (err, row) => {
      if(err) { reject(err) }
      result.push(row.id)
    }, () => {
      resolve(result)
    })
  })
}

selectIds().then((ids) => console.log(ids)