I am looking for a way, with Node v7.6 or above, to get a Bluebird Promise (or any non-native promise) when an async function is called.
In the same way I can do:
Is there a way to change the default Promise returned by AsyncFunction
No.
What are the reasons of this locking
The ability to hijack all async function
s could be a security issue. Also, even where that is no problem, it's still not useful to do this replacement globally. It would affect your entire realm, including all libraries that you are using. They might rely on using native promises. And you cannot use two different promise libraries, although they might be required.
I want to be able to do something like:
getResolvedAsyncAwaitPromise().tap(...)
What you can do is to wrap the function at its definition with Promise.method:
const Bluebird = require('Bluebird');
const getResolvedAsyncAwaitPromise = Bluebird.method(async () => 'value');
getResolvedAsyncAwaitPromise()
.tap(…) // Works!
.then(…);