Asynchronous Client

Development
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How would you go to implement an asynchronous client, say in Python 3.6 with asyncio support?

Maybe coding an async client does not make sens. WDYT?

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All of the released client libraries provide an asynchronous API. I believe the Python client accomplishes this with gevent. A “modernized” Python binding with asyncio, generators, etc. sounds like a great idea!

EDIT: I take it back, these days the Python library uses the native ‘threading’ module rather than gevent.

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I believe that one can set the concurrency model (to, for example, gevent) using the model parameter of fdb.open: https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/api-python.html#fdb.open

I don’t believe that asyncio is supported, but gevent is (modulo bugs).

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The source code seems to think it has asyncio as an option:

elif event_model == ‘asyncio’:

(From https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/master/bindings/python/fdb/impl.py)

If the documentation doesn’t say what options are valid for event_model that seems like a doc bug!

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Oh, woops. So, I guess it would support asyncio, then.

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My understanding is that the client of foundations can have to do a lot of computation in some cases. Think of joins for instance, or group by. So using an asynchronous client doesn’t seem like a good solution.

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