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Constructor promisification

See original GitHub issue

Given this constructor: https://github.com/mapbox/node-sqlite3/wiki/API#new-sqlite3databasefilename-mode-callback

new sqlite3.Database(filename, [mode], [callback])

where “callback” function will be called when the database was opened successfully or when an error occurred, how can it be promisified? Because this does not works:

(new sqlite3.Database(':memory:', sqlite3.OPEN_READWRITE|sqlite3.OPEN_CREATE)).then(function () {...});

Thanks in advance.

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Created 9 years ago
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petkaantonovcommented, Mar 13, 2015

@benjamingr promisify doesn’t work with constructors

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benjamingrcommented, Mar 13, 2015

Making constructors perform io operations is a horrible idea o_0

That said - you can convert it to a promise API just like anything else.

In the future - please keep the issue tracker for bugs and feature requests and ask support questions in Stack Overflow - as explained in the contribution guidelines.

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