util.promisify in Roo-Code codebase.

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In this article, we review promisify method. You will learn:

What is util.promisify?
What is Roo-Code?
Usage example.

What is util.promisify?

Util is a NodeJS API. It has a lot of method defined. Check the util page. We are interested in promisify.

Promisify

Promisify takes a function following the common error-first callback style, i.e. taking an (err, value) => ... callback as the last argument, and returns a version that returns promises.

Below is an example picked from the docs:

import { promisify } from 'node:util';
import { stat } from 'node:fs';

const promisifiedStat = promisify(stat);
promisifiedStat('.').then((stats) => {
  // Do something with `stats`
}).catch((error) => {
  // Handle the error.
});

Learn more about promisify.

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Usage example

In the Roo-Code codebase, there is a file, worktree-service.ts. It has promisify imported as shown below, at the top of the file:

import { promisify } from "util"

How is this used? Roo-Code is making two methods return as a promise as shown below:

import { exec, execFile } from "child_process"
import { promisify } from "util"
...
const execAsync = promisify(exec)
const execFileAsync = promisify(execFile)

and then this promisified functions are used in the WorktreeService class as shown below:

/**
 * Service for managing git worktrees.
 * All methods are platform-agnostic and don't depend on VSCode APIs.
 */
export class WorktreeService {
 /**
  * Check if git is installed on the system
  */
 async checkGitInstalled(): Promise<boolean> {
  try {
   await execAsync("git --version")
   return true
  } catch {
   return false
  }
 }
...