How to get Meteor.Call to return value for template?

Question

I\'ve tried to understand this post regarding this concept, however, I\'m failing to get it. I have the following simple setup:

/server/test.js
Meteor.method         


        

Answer 1

From the Meteor.call documentation:

On the client, if you do not pass a callback and you are not inside a stub, call will return undefined, and you will have no way to get the return value of the method. That is because the client doesn't have fibers, so there is not actually any way it can block on the remote execution of a method.

So, you'll want to do it like this:

Meteor.call('abc', function(err, data) {
  if (err)
    console.log(err);

  Session.set('q', data);
});

Template.hello.greeting = function() {
  return Session.get('q').foo;
};

This will reactively update the template once the data is available.