Method Unexpectedly Returning Nil

I’ve been following the tutorials. I created a User structure and a UserModel class. I have a view controller which calls a method from the UserModel class. That class is supposed to return a User structure with various details about that user. However, the method is “unexpectedly returning nil.” I have tested the method inside my view controller class and it works there. However, it doesn’t work within its own class. (Note: the User Id is printing, and the method works within class: each value from the database was found and applied to the User struct and able to be printed out.)

My UserModel class:

class UserModel {

    var user:User?

    func getUser(userId: String) -> User? {

        let docRef = Firestore.firestore().collection("Users").document(userId)

            // Get data
            docRef.getDocument { (document, error) in
                if let document = document, document.exists
            {



                var user:User = User(name: document["name"] as! String, phone: document["phone"] as! String, imageUrl: document["imageUrl"]  as! String)



            } else
            {
                    print("Document does not exist")
            }
            }

        return user!
    }

My User struct file:

struct User {
     var name:String
     var phone:String
     var imageUrl:String
}

My View controller:

override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()


        userId = Auth.auth().currentUser?.uid




    }

    override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {

        let model = UserModel()
        user = model.getUser(userId: userId!)
        print(user?.name)

    }

Any ideas?

Needed to call it async. That was the issue.