Migrate to bent from the deprecated request library

Author: fendor

package.json

@@ -429,14 +429,14 @@
     }
   },
   "devDependencies": {
+    "@types/bent": "^7.3.2",
     "@types/cheerio": "^0.22.30",
     "@types/glob": "^7.1.4",
     "@types/js-yaml": "^4.0.5",
     "@types/lodash-es": "^4.17.3",
     "@types/lru-cache": "^7.6.1",
     "@types/mocha": "^9.0.0",
     "@types/node": "^17.0.23",
-    "@types/request-promise-native": "^1.0.17",
     "@types/vscode": "^1.52.0",
     "@types/which": "^2.0.1",
     "@types/yauzl": "^2.9.1",
@@ -461,13 +461,12 @@
     "justusadam.language-haskell"
   ],
   "dependencies": {
+    "bent": "^7.3.12",
     "cheerio": "^1.0.0-rc.10",
     "extend": ">=3.0.2",
     "js-yaml": "^4.1.0",
     "lodash-es": "^4.17.21",
     "lru-cache": "^7.7.3",
-    "request": "^2.88.2",
-    "request-promise-native": "^1.0.8",
     "ts-pattern": "^4.0.1",
     "vscode-languageclient": "^7.0.0",
     "which": "^2.0.1",

src/commands/importIdentifier.ts

@@ -2,15 +2,16 @@ import * as cheerio from 'cheerio';
 import * as yaml from 'js-yaml';
 import escapeRegExp from 'lodash-es/escapeRegExp';
 import * as LRUCache from 'lru-cache';
-import * as request from 'request-promise-native';
+import * as bent from 'bent';
 import * as vscode from 'vscode';
 import { CommandNames } from './constants';
 
+const getJson = bent('json');
+
 const askHoogle = async (variable: string): Promise<any> => {
-  return await request({
-    url: `https://hoogle.haskell.org/?hoogle=${variable}&scope=set%3Astackage&mode=json`,
-    json: true,
-  }).promise();
+  return await getJson(
+    `https://hoogle.haskell.org/?hoogle=${variable}&scope=set%3Astackage&mode=json`
+  );
 };
 
 const withCache =