google actions webhook promise await - what am I doing wrong? - promise

Question

I am struggling with getting JS to wait for a process to finish before continuing
With a simple wait, the process continues while it is meant to wait
const functions = require('firebase-functions');
const app = conversation();
// wait ms milliseconds
function wait(ms) {
console.log("in the wait");
return new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, ms));
}
async function getData() {
console.log(`start wait `);
await wait(5000);
console.log(`end wait `);
}
app.handle('findit', conv => {
console.log(`-----> handle activated `);
console.log(`-----> BEFORE call getdata`);
getData();
console.log(`--------END OF HANDLE ----------------------`);
});
exports.ActionsOnGoogleFulfillment = functions.https.onRequest(app);```
[Timing logs][1]
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/96Ydv.png

Answer 1

const app = conversation();
// wait ms milliseconds
function wait(ms) {
console.log("in the wait");
return new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, ms));
}
async function getData() {
console.log(`start wait `);
await wait(5000);
console.log(`end wait `);
}
app.handle('findit', async conv => {
console.log(`-----> handle activated `);
console.log(`-----> BEFORE call getdata`);
getData();
console.log(`--------END OF HANDLE ----------------------`);
});
exports.ActionsOnGoogleFulfillment = functions.https.onRequest(app);```
the issue was the conv was not async - the addition of the async to the app.handle('findit', async conv => { fixed the issue.