protractor element(by.binding('***')).getText() return a object instead of string

Question

For below protractor mocha test cases, greeting.getText() will always return
below result instead of the string. Could anyone give me clue on this?

   describe('angularjs home', function () {
        it('Should welcome a user', function (done) {
            browser.get('http://www.angularjs.org');
            element(by.model('yourName')).sendKeys('tanshuai');    
            var greeting = element(by.binding('yourName'));
            console.log(greeting.getText());
            expect(greeting.getText()).to.eventually.equal('Hello tanshuai!');
        });
    });

The console.log output================

  ElementFinder {
      browser_:
       ProtractorBrowser {
         controlFlow: [Function],
         schedule: [Function],
         setFileDetector: [Function],
         getExecutor: [Function],
      ................................
      getId: [Function],
      takeScreenshot: [Function] }

Answer 1

Protractor: element.getText() returns an object and not String

Looks like getText() returns a promise and you need to resolve it. Check out the link above