Use Async Functions in DialogFlow WebHook

Question

Referring to the solution posted here (DialogFlow V2 Webhook - Expects Speech responses Immediately and not after async requests)
What I want to achieve is that the web hook should wait until I get a response from my api call. P.S: The API is working, its just that the bot doesn't wait for the response to come. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

const rp = require('request-promise');

    function convert(params){
    return rp('https://data.fixer.io/api/convert?access_key=[my key]&from='+
            params['currency-from']+'&to='+params['currency-to']+'&amount='+params.amount) 
    .then((data) => {
       let responseData = JSON.parse(data);
       let message = responseData.result;
       console.log('Success');
       return Promise.resolve(message);
    }).catch((err)=> {
        return Promise.reject(err);
    });
}

  function currencyConversion(agent) {
        let params = request.body.result.parameters;
        return convert(params)
        .then((message)=> {
             agent.add(`${params.amount} ${params['currency-from']} is ${message} ${params['currency-to']}`);
                return Promise.resolve()
        })
       .catch((err) => {
                console.log(err);
                agent.add("Uh oh, something happened.");
                return Promise.resolve();
            })
  }

let intentMap = new Map();
intentMap.set('Default Welcome Intent', welcome);
intentMap.set('Default Fallback Intent', fallback);
intentMap.set('currency.convert', currencyConversion);

Answer 1

You didn't state what environment you were running in, but given your code, and the agent.parameters change I outlined above, I was able to duplicate your problem using Firebase Cloud Functions with node.js 6.14.

I was able to get it to work by using the request-promise-native package instead of request-promise. As the name suggests, this uses native Promises instead of the Bluebird Promise package, but otherwise the calls you're making are identical.

Answer 2

The Promise logic looks sound, but this line doesn't make sense:

let params = request.body.result.parameters;

There is no request object that is in scope.

You can get the parameters for the request from agent.parameters.