Summarize the problem
I have a flask server (with endpoints and socket events) and a discord bot, both work independently, I want to run them on parallel so I can trigger functions of the bot from a flask endpoint.
Describe what you have tried
For context, this is an example of the endpoint:
@app.route("/submit", methods=["POST"])
async def submit():
data = request.json
userid = int(os.getenv("USER_ID"))
message = f"```Title: {data['title']}\nMessage: {data['message']}```"
await send_dm(userid, message)
return data
Where send_dm in its own package looks like this
# notice that this is not a method of a function
# nor a decorated function with properties from the discord library
# it just uses an intance of the commands.Bot class
async def send_dm(userid: int, message: str):
user = await bot.fetch_user(userid)
channel = await user.create_dm()
await channel.send(message)
So to run them on parallel and be able to communicate them with each other I tried:
Attempt 1: multiprocessing module
def main():
executor = ProcessPoolExecutor(2)
loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
loop.run_in_executor(executor, start_bot)
loop.run_in_executor(executor, start_server)
loop.run_forever()
if __name__ == "__main__":
run()
When the function on the endpoint mentioned executes I get the following error AttributeError: '_MissingSentinel' object has no attribute 'is_set' on concurrent tasks
Attempt 2: threading module
# make them aware of each other
bot.flask_app = app
app.bot = bot
async def main():
task = threading.Thread(target=start_bot)
task.start()
start_server()
if __name__ == "__main__":
asyncio.run(main())
This approach brings two issues:
- First is that to run
start_botI use.start()method instead of.run()because according to the this example.run()created its own event pool which would make it unreachable by other processes, and.start()is an async function, so when running this I get the error:RuntimeError: You cannot use AsyncToSync in the same thread as an async event loop - just await the async function directly. - Second is that even using the
run.()function then the same issue arises when executing mentioned endpoint.
Attempt 3: asyncio module
def main():
executor = ProcessPoolExecutor(2)
loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
boo = loop.run_in_executor(executor, start_bot)
baa = loop.run_in_executor(executor, start_server)
loop.run_forever()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
This time I actually get the execute both processes but still cannot call the function I want from the flask endpoint.
I also tried
await asyncio.gather([start_server(), start_bot()])
But same issue as Attempt 2, and I already upgraded the flask[async] module so that is not the issue anymore.
Show some code
To reproduce what I have right now you can either check the full repo here that has only 4 files or this sample should be enough to reproduce.
from server import socketio, app
from bot import bot
from dotenv import load_dotenv
import os
import asyncio
import threading
env_path = os.path.dirname(__file__) + "/.env"
load_dotenv(env_path)
def start_server():
socketio.run(app)
def start_bot():
token = os.getenv("BOT_TOKEN")
bot.run(token)
async def main():
# this doesn't achieve what I want and is the main part of the problem
start_server()
start_bot()
if __name__ == "__main__":
try:
asyncio.run(main())
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print("Program exited")
Did I miss something?, point it out in the comments and I will add it in the edit.
