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promise-function-async

Require any function or method that returns a Promise to be marked async.

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Some problems reported by this rule are automatically fixable by the --fix ESLint command line option.

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This rule requires type information to run.

Ensures that each function is only capable of:

  • returning a rejected promise, or
  • throwing an Error object.

In contrast, non-async, Promise-returning functions are technically capable of either. Code that handles the results of those functions will often need to handle both cases, which can get complex. This rule's practice removes a requirement for creating code to handle both cases.

When functions return unions of Promise and non-Promise types implicitly, it is usually a mistake—this rule flags those cases. If it is intentional, make the return type explicitly to allow the rule to pass.

.eslintrc.cjs
module.exports = {
"rules": {
"@typescript-eslint/promise-function-async": "error"
}
};
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Examples

Examples of code for this rule

const arrowFunctionReturnsPromise = () => Promise.resolve('value');

function functionReturnsPromise() {
return Promise.resolve('value');
}

function functionReturnsUnionWithPromiseImplicitly(p: boolean) {
return p ? 'value' : Promise.resolve('value');
}

Options

This rule accepts the following options

type Options = [
{
/** Whether to consider `any` and `unknown` to be Promises. */
allowAny?: boolean;
/** Any extra names of classes or interfaces to be considered Promises. */
allowedPromiseNames?: string[];
checkArrowFunctions?: boolean;
checkFunctionDeclarations?: boolean;
checkFunctionExpressions?: boolean;
checkMethodDeclarations?: boolean;
},
];

const defaultOptions: Options = [
{
allowAny: true,
allowedPromiseNames: [],
checkArrowFunctions: true,
checkFunctionDeclarations: true,
checkFunctionExpressions: true,
checkMethodDeclarations: true,
},
];

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