Returning a promise value in Angular 2, Ionic 2

Question

I am familiarizing myself with Angular2, Ionic2 and maybe I am misunderstanding something but was hoping for assistance.

I have a provider called 'CurrentUser' for the purpose of storing and getting LocalStorage data.

     getProfile(): any {
      this.local.get("user-profile").then((profile) => {
      var val = JSON.parse(profile);
      return val;
  });
}

this function getProfile() returns a promise

If I inject this provider into a component. How would I await the promise to to resolve before assigning the data when calling this function from the component?.

@Component({
   templateUrl: 'build/pages/book_meeting/book_meeting.html'
})
 export class BookMeetingPage implements OnInit {
 constructor(public navCtrl: NavController, private _currentUser: CurrentUser) {
}

profile: IProfile;

   ngOnInit(): any {
   this.profile = this._currentUser.getProfile();
   console.log(this.profile);//returns undefined
  }
}

Solution

First of all you have to return this.local.get("user-profile") promise from getProfile function so that it can chain when you call. Thereafter you can get data returned from getProfile function in .then success callback.

getProfile(): any {
   return this.local.get("user-profile").then((profile) => {
      var val = JSON.parse(profile);
      return val;
   });
);

Additionally you can't get data as soon as you make an ajax, on success of it you can get the response

ngOnInit(): any {
   this._currentUser.getProfile().then(
     value => { console.log(value) }
   )
}