Parse.User query not working in Cloud Code - parse-platform

Question

I am working on a project using Parse where I need some information calculated for each user and updated when they update their account. I created a Cloud Code trigger that does what I need whenever a user account is updated, and that is working well. However, I have about two thousand accounts that are already created that I need to update as well. After hours of trying to get a Cloud Job to work, I decided to try to simplify it. I wrote the following job to simply count the user accounts. To reiterate; I'm not actually trying to count the users, there are much more efficient ways to do that, I am trying to verify that I can query and loop over the existing user accounts. (The option to useMasterKey is in there because I will need that later.)
Parse.Cloud.job("getUserStatistics", function(request, status) {
// Set up to modify user data
Parse.Cloud.useMasterKey();
// Query for all users
var query = new Parse.Query(Parse.User);
var counter = 0;
query.each(function(user) {
counter = counter+1;
}).then(function() {
// Set the job's success status
status.success("Counted all User Accounts.");
}, function(error) {
// Set the job's error status
status.error("Failed to Count User Accounts.");
});
console.log('Found '+counter+' users.');
});
When I run the code, I get:
I2015-07-09T17:29:10.880Z]Found 0 users.
I2015-07-09T17:29:12.863Z]v99: Ran job getUserStatistics with:
Input: "{}"
Result: Counted all User Accounts.
Even more baffling to me, if I add:
query.limit(10);
...the query itself actually fails! (I would expect it to count 10 users.)
That said, if there is a simpler way to trigger an update on all the users in a Parse application, I'd love to hear it!

Answer 1

The reference actually says that:
The query may not have any sort order, and may not use limit or skip.
https://parse.com/docs/js/api/symbols/Parse.Query.html#each
So forget about "query.limit(10)", that's not relevant here.
Anyways, by their example for a background job, it seems you might have forgotten to put return in your "each" function. Plus, you called console.log('Found '+counter+' users.'); out side of your asynchronous task, that makes sense why you get 0 results. maybe you try:
query.each(function(user) {
counter = counter+1;
// you'll want to save your changes for each user,
// therefore, you will need this
return user.save();
}).then(function() {
// Set the job's success status
status.success("Counted all User Accounts.");
// console.log inside the asynchronous scope
console.log('Found '+counter+' users.');
}, function(error) {
// Set the job's error status
status.error("Failed to Count User Accounts.");
});
You can check again Parse's example of writing this cloud job.
https://parse.com/docs/js/guide#cloud-code-advanced-writing-a-background-job