Comparing it with native nodejs and recent version of libraries

[santhoshtr]

The request npm package has https://github.com/request/request-promise which says "
The simplified HTTP request client 'request' with Promise support. Powered by Bluebird."

So, I would like to know what is the advantage of wrapping it further?

In otherwords, does the features we listed still holds true with recent versions of nodejs and request libraries?

[Pchelolo]

@santhoshtr this was created before the request-promise was around, so currently preq might be obsolete, although we don't really know. We'd need a significant time investment to find out whether this can be replaced, but we just never had the time to actually do that.

I was actually thinking to use the time on a hackathon to try replacing this.

[santhoshtr]

Thanks, understandable. May be we should at least create a ticket for further investigation and take a decision on whether it is worth the maintenance cost?
Service runner and services based on that (example cxserver) inherited the usage of the library and now it is not trivial to replace this with something else.

[Pchelolo]

@santhoshtr ye, the ticket could be a good idea. I am looking into simplifying this, but I guess it should be a step-by-step thing, way to many things depend on this