Calls to slack API should be async

[tedski]

Some of the http requests to the slack api take upwards of 2 seconds to respond. These calls are blocking and therefore should be asynchronous.

[mortenlj]

I've just started looking at using slack-irssi, but the number of users in our network is large enough that downloading the entire list takes 5-6 seconds each time. That means it's a no-go, since the script times out on every API-call.

Any plans/thoughts on what changes should be done in order to make it async? I might be interested in trying to implement it, if I can find the time/the itch becomes annoying enough. :)

[ailin-nemui]

I think it is difficult to do with LWP (will need fork), maybe better to move to an async implementation such as Mojo::UserAgent or Net::Async::HTTP

[ghost]

I'll vote for Mojo::UserAgent. It's my go to these days with JSON decoding and async support.

[tedski]

I'm all for Mojo::UserAgent, I just haven't found the time to do the rewrite. PRs for this are more than welcome.

[kchr]

Sounds like a good solution. I'll help out with what I can!

[ailin-nemui]

I provided a sample port in #19

[ailin-nemui]

Downloading the list may still take too long in which case the code needs to be further reconstructed