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Metadata-Version: 2.1
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Name: asgiref
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Version: 3.2.7
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Summary: ASGI specs, helper code, and adapters
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Home-page: http://github.com/django/asgiref/
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Author: Django Software Foundation
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Author-email: foundation@djangoproject.com
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License: BSD
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Platform: UNKNOWN
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Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
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Classifier: Environment :: Web Environment
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Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
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Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
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Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
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Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP
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Requires-Python: >=3.5
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Description-Content-Type: text/x-rst
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Provides-Extra: tests
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Requires-Dist: pytest (~=4.3.0) ; extra == 'tests'
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Requires-Dist: pytest-asyncio (~=0.10.0) ; extra == 'tests'
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asgiref
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=======
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.. image:: https://api.travis-ci.org/django/asgiref.svg
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:target: https://travis-ci.org/django/asgiref
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.. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/asgiref.svg
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:target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/asgiref
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ASGI is a standard for Python asynchronous web apps and servers to communicate
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with each other, and positioned as an asynchronous successor to WSGI. You can
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read more at https://asgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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This package includes ASGI base libraries, such as:
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* Sync-to-async and async-to-sync function wrappers, ``asgiref.sync``
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* Server base classes, ``asgiref.server``
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* A WSGI-to-ASGI adapter, in ``asgiref.wsgi``
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Function wrappers
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-----------------
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These allow you to wrap or decorate async or sync functions to call them from
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the other style (so you can call async functions from a synchronous thread,
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or vice-versa).
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In particular:
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* AsyncToSync lets a synchronous subthread stop and wait while the async
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function is called on the main thread's event loop, and then control is
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returned to the thread when the async function is finished.
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* SyncToAsync lets async code call a synchronous function, which is run in
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a threadpool and control returned to the async coroutine when the synchronous
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function completes.
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The idea is to make it easier to call synchronous APIs from async code and
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asynchronous APIs from synchronous code so it's easier to transition code from
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one style to the other. In the case of Channels, we wrap the (synchronous)
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Django view system with SyncToAsync to allow it to run inside the (asynchronous)
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ASGI server.
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Note that exactly what threads things run in is very specific, and aimed to
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keep maximum compatibility with old synchronous code. See
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"Synchronous code & Threads" below for a full explanation.
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Threadlocal replacement
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-----------------------
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This is a drop-in replacement for ``threading.local`` that works with both
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threads and asyncio Tasks. Even better, it will proxy values through from a
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task-local context to a thread-local context when you use ``sync_to_async``
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to run things in a threadpool, and vice-versa for ``async_to_sync``.
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If you instead want true thread- and task-safety, you can set
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``thread_critical`` on the Local object to ensure this instead.
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Server base classes
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-------------------
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Includes a ``StatelessServer`` class which provides all the hard work of
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writing a stateless server (as in, does not handle direct incoming sockets
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but instead consumes external streams or sockets to work out what is happening).
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An example of such a server would be a chatbot server that connects out to
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a central chat server and provides a "connection scope" per user chatting to
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it. There's only one actual connection, but the server has to separate things
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into several scopes for easier writing of the code.
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You can see an example of this being used in `frequensgi <https://github.com/andrewgodwin/frequensgi>`_.
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WSGI-to-ASGI adapter
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--------------------
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Allows you to wrap a WSGI application so it appears as a valid ASGI application.
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Simply wrap it around your WSGI application like so::
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asgi_application = WsgiToAsgi(wsgi_application)
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The WSGI application will be run in a synchronous threadpool, and the wrapped
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ASGI application will be one that accepts ``http`` class messages.
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Please note that not all extended features of WSGI may be supported (such as
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file handles for incoming POST bodies).
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Dependencies
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------------
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``asgiref`` requires Python 3.5 or higher.
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Contributing
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------------
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Please refer to the
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`main Channels contributing docs <https://github.com/django/channels/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst>`_.
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Testing
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'''''''
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To run tests, make sure you have installed the ``tests`` extra with the package::
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cd asgiref/
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pip install -e .[tests]
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pytest
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Building the documentation
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''''''''''''''''''''''''''
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The documentation uses `Sphinx <http://www.sphinx-doc.org>`_::
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cd asgiref/docs/
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pip install sphinx
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To build the docs, you can use the default tools::
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sphinx-build -b html . _build/html # or `make html`, if you've got make set up
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cd _build/html
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python -m http.server
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...or you can use ``sphinx-autobuild`` to run a server and rebuild/reload
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your documentation changes automatically::
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pip install sphinx-autobuild
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sphinx-autobuild . _build/html
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Implementation Details
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----------------------
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Synchronous code & threads
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''''''''''''''''''''''''''
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The ``asgiref.sync`` module provides two wrappers that let you go between
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asynchronous and synchronous code at will, while taking care of the rough edges
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for you.
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Unfortunately, the rough edges are numerous, and the code has to work especially
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hard to keep things in the same thread as much as possible. Notably, the
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restrictions we are working with are:
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* All synchronous code called through ``SyncToAsync`` and marked with
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``thread_sensitive`` should run in the same thread as each other (and if the
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outer layer of the program is synchronous, the main thread)
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* If a thread already has a running async loop, ``AsyncToSync`` can't run things
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on that loop if it's blocked on synchronous code that is above you in the
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call stack.
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The first compromise you get to might be that ``thread_sensitive`` code should
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just run in the same thread and not spawn in a sub-thread, fulfilling the first
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restriction, but that immediately runs you into the second restriction.
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The only real solution is to essentially have a variant of ThreadPoolExecutor
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that executes any ``thread_sensitive`` code on the outermost synchronous
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thread - either the main thread, or a single spawned subthread.
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This means you now have two basic states:
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* If the outermost layer of your program is synchronous, then all async code
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run through ``AsyncToSync`` will run in a per-call event loop in arbitary
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sub-threads, while all ``thread_sensitive`` code will run in the main thread.
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* If the outermost layer of your program is asynchronous, then all async code
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runs on the main thread's event loop, and all ``thread_sensitive`` synchronous
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code will run in a single shared sub-thread.
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Cruicially, this means that in both cases there is a thread which is a shared
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resource that all ``thread_sensitive`` code must run on, and there is a chance
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that this thread is currently blocked on its own ``AsyncToSync`` call. Thus,
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``AsyncToSync`` needs to act as an executor for thread code while it's blocking.
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The ``CurrentThreadExecutor`` class provides this functionality; rather than
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simply waiting on a Future, you can call its ``run_until_future`` method and
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it will run submitted code until that Future is done. This means that code
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inside the call can then run code on your thread.
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Maintenance and Security
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------------------------
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To report security issues, please contact security@djangoproject.com. For GPG
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signatures and more security process information, see
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https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/security/.
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To report bugs or request new features, please open a new GitHub issue.
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This repository is part of the Channels project. For the shepherd and maintenance team, please see the
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`main Channels readme <https://github.com/django/channels/blob/master/README.rst>`_.
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