Kafka-node: async/await

[kylezhang]

What time to support async / await?
Thanks！

[hyperlink]

This library doesn't use promises and we need to support latest LTS so I would say at the earliest after node 6 leaves LTS.

[DanielWLam]

@hyperlink Hi, if I want to use async/await, what can i do? Can I use blurbird promisify to promise this library?

[hyperlink]

@DanielWLam shouldn't be an issue to bluebird or utils.promisify to promisify callback style methods.

[RobertHerhold]

Promises are definitely supported natively in Node 6. I understand not using async/await yet but it would be nice to at least have the option for users to use async/await on promises returned by this library.

[cuvillier]

It works fine with blurbird .

Here is an example:
` var Promise = require("bluebird");
...
const kafkaProducer = new kafka.Producer(kafkaClient, producerOptions);
const kafkaProducerSend = Promise.promisify(kafkaProducer .send, {context: kafkaProducer });

async function yop() {
...
await kafkaProducerSend ([kafkaMessage]);
// Send is complete when you reach this point and there is no exception
}
`

Enjoy.

[LunaPg]

Does a async/await version is planed ?

[hyperlink]

Nope, but you can create a PR @LunaPg