Nodejs 18: Top Level Await using fetch API

[djsd123]

Hi there,

According to this blog-post top-level awaits should be fully supported. However, when I try this with the fetch API, I still have to use the await keyword within my handler function otherwise response.text() will be empty.

In short:
message: await response.text(),

vs

message: response.text(),

Am I misunderstanding something?

import { APIGatewayProxyEvent, APIGatewayProxyHandler, APIGatewayProxyResult} from 'aws-lambda'

const url = 'https://aws.amazon.com/'
// fetch API method is available from Nodejs 18
const response = await fetch(url)

export const handler: APIGatewayProxyHandler = async (event: APIGatewayProxyEvent): Promise<APIGatewayProxyResult> => {
    try {
        return {
            statusCode: response.status,
            body: JSON.stringify({
                message: await response.text(),    // <- HERE
                // input: event,
            }),
        }
    } catch (error) {
        console.log(error)
        return {
            statusCode: 500,
            body: JSON.stringify({message: error.body})
        }
    }
}