How to access the value of a promise?

Question

I\'m looking at this example from Angular\'s docs for $q but I think this probably applies to promises in general. The example below is copied verbatim from the

Answer 1

Maybe this small Typescript code example will help.

private getAccount(id: Id) : Account {
    let account = Account.empty();
    this.repository.get(id)
        .then(res => account = res)
        .catch(e => Notices.results(e));
    return account;
}

Here the repository.get(id) returns a Promise. I assign it to the variable account within the then statement.