I'm trying to get multiple data objects from The Movie Database at once using Promise.all
. After I loop through all the results of the fetch
call, and use .json()
on each bit of data, I tried to log it to the console. However, rather than an array of objects with data, I'm getting an array of Promises
. Nested in the promises, I can see my data, but I'm clearly missing a step in order to have an array of data objects, instead of just Promises
.
What am I missing here?
//store movie API URLs into meaningful variables
const trending = `https://api.themoviedb.org/3/trending/all/day?api_key=${API_KEY}`;
const topRated = `https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/top_rated?api_key=${API_KEY}&language=en-US&page=1`;
const nowPlaying = `https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/now_playing?api_key=${API_KEY}&language=en-US&page=1`;
const upcoming = `https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/upcoming?api_key=${API_KEY}&language=en-US&page=1`;
//create an array of urls to fetch data from
const allMovieURLs = [trending, topRated, nowPlaying, upcoming];
const promiseURLs = allMovieURLs.map(url => fetch(url));
Promise.all(promiseURLs)
.then(responses => responses.map(url => url.json()))
.then(dataArr => console.log(dataArr));
};
Promise.all() The Promise.all() method takes an iterable of promises as input and returns a single Promise . This returned promise fulfills when all of the input's promises fulfill (including when an empty iterable is passed), with an array of the fulfillment values.
Rejection: If any of the passed promises are rejected, then this method rejects the value of that promise, whether or not the other promises have resolved. In other words, if any promise fails to get executed, then Promise.
As we can see in the output above, even though the promise2 function throws an error, the Promise. all() method does not get rejected, and the browser throws an unhandled error.
One interesting thing about Promise. all is that the order of the promises is maintained. The first promise in the array will get resolved to the first element of the output array, the second promise will be a second element in the output array and so on.
Your .then(responses => responses.map(url => url.json()))
resolves to an array of Promises, so you need to call Promise.all
again if you want to wait for all to resolve:
Promise.all(promiseURLs)
.then(responses => Promise.all(responses.map(url => url.json())))
.then(dataArr => console.log(dataArr));
Or, you might consider using just one Promise.all
, and having each URL fetch
and the json
, that way some items aren't idle in the middle of script execution:
const allMovieURLs = [trending, topRated, nowPlaying, upcoming];
const promiseURLs = allMovieURLs.map(url => fetch(url).then(res => res.json()));
Promise.all(promiseURLs)
.then(dataArr => console.log(dataArr));
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