async cog setup

[6days9weeks]

To add support for async setups in a cog

async def setup(bot):
    n = Foo(bot)
    bot.add_cog(n)
    await n.initialize() # an async function which needs to be run on cog load, I know we can do bot.loop.create_task but this could be an good add-on

Could be useful while caching something or run some async code when it’s loaded

[4Kaylum]

I'm not against it, but that then means that teardown as well as load_extension and remove_extension need to also be async.

Maybe better (although more suited for VBU) would be a method that gets run when the cog is loaded? Some kind of async init.

I'm just throwing thoughts out there at the moment.

[6days9weeks]

I'm not against it, but that then means that teardown as well as load_extension and remove_extension need to also be async.

Maybe better (although more suited for VBU) would be a method that gets run when the cog is loaded? Some kind of async init.

I'm just throwing thoughts out there at the moment.

async init like we have startup_caching for db in cog? then its feasible for what I’m trying to do

[SpicyTakis]

Wouldn't this break the drop in functionality of dpy cogs to vbu?

[6days9weeks]

Wouldn't this break the drop in functionality of dpy cogs to vbu?

As kae mentioned above, there might be some kind of async init instead of fully async setup and I don't think it'd break functionality of dpy cogs to vbu, there's async setup support for cogs on red-discordbot which I used to use sometime ago, you could do async, and normal setup as you do right now in it.