Protractor can't get value from executescript it returns a promise

Question

In protractor, I have this.

function getText(): string {
    return browser.executeScript(`return 'some text';`);
}

The first one returns a promise and I don't know how to get the value from a promise.

I then tried to do

function getText(): string {
    browser.executeScript(`return 'some text';`).then(function(result) {
        return result;
    });

The problem with the second one is that I can't find a way to make it asynchronous. It only returns when all my code is finished executing.

The thing I'm trying to achieve is :

let text = getText();

Hope someone can help as I couldn't find a working answer to this question.

Edit: I couldn't find a way to place it in a variable outside the function. My current solution is:

browser.executeScript(`return 'some text';`).then(function(result) {
    console.log(result);
    //do your stuff here with the variable.
});
//can't find out how to use it outside the then function as other code runs first. But for now, that way works.

Answer 1

You can use async ... await mechanism for working with promises:

async function getText(): Promise<string> {
  const text = browser.executeScript(`return 'some text';`);
  return text;
});

...
...

let text = await getText();

And if you don't want to wait while your getText method has been finished (I don't know why you need this strange thing) you can just not resolve the Promise:

let text = getText();