Where is Promise in request-promise?

I can’t understand where is a promise in a request-promise. How do I get a promise object, not a Request object?

let rp = require('request-promise');

let p = rp('https://example.com/');

console.log('p', p);

// p is not a promise, it is Request!
Request {
  domain: null,
   ...
     _sessionCache: { map: {}, list: [] } } }

How do I get a promise object? I need it to create an array of promises. But instead I get an array of Requests.

    Object.keys(array).map(id => {
        return rp('https://example.com/' + id); // I expect this to be a Promise, not a Request
    });

[analog-nico]

Hi @wzup , it is actually both!

What you get is the original request object plus .then(...), .catch(...), and .finally(...) attached. If you want to use request(...).spread(...) for example then do this: request(...).promise().spread(...) But if you just need standard promise capabilities like in your use case with map you can work with rp('https://example.com/' + id) directly since the returned object has a .then(...) method.

Further details see here.

Anything else I can answer for you?

[analog-nico]

@BentOnCoding Yes there is: rp(...).promise()