Future async compatibility

[gil-obradors]

Any intentions to convert to async compatible package?

I'm learning about it....

[luqasz]

Hi. Yes I'd like to support that BUT asyncio in python is a one big state machine and I'd like to avoid it. Trio IMO is much easier.

@gil-obradors do you have any experience with asyncio ?

[gil-obradors]

Hi ! Sorry for the delay.

I have teorical knowloedges, but not real experience, more than use frameworks that are ready for async like starlette,

My conclusion after some mental loops that I have thinked last days...

• librouters is low level interface. So I'm not sure if its interesting to await for byte level reciveing. May be can be interesting at command sentense level.
• Need an event loop, but must be mixed with other tasks to get full async functions. An event loop dedicated for librouteros havn't got sense inspite of a big app that is doing 100 calls to routes Mikrotik, like starlette is with Http requests, do you follow me?
• Interesting implementations use workers like celery. This workers can do async tasks. Maybe this can be the best approach

Trio is a tool for create and manage async app, with event loop... This would be for the second point that I have described. I'm wrong?

Gil

[luqasz]

No need to implement event loop. This is already provided in asyncio and trio. The challenge is to enable .tag support, which will provide multiple commands execution in one connection.

[gil-obradors]

possible roadmaps:

• include tag to transactions (provide multiple commands execution in one connection )
• migrate socket to asyncore ( async/await ready)

I will keep thinking about how to deal with this.

I'm getting inspired with pysnmp, that you can run async or sync requests as you want : asyncore,asyncio, trollius, twisted

[luqasz]

Keep in mind that it is impossible to be 100% DRY with both synchronous and async code. Some parts (if not a lot of them) will have to be wrote twice.

[thefathacker]

Hi @gil-obradors,

Sorry do not know if this is an old topic, this is library is only something I have only just found while attempting to automate my mikrotik network.

What I am doing in order to speed up my process I am using python threading and a thread per device it may be a way to increase performance

Regards,

TFH

[theGowda]

Hi @gil-obradors,

Sorry do not know if this is an old topic, this is library is only something I have only just found while attempting to automate my mikrotik network.

What I am doing in order to speed up my process I am using python threading and a thread per device it may be a way to increase performance

Regards,

TFH

PR #303 should solve this