Django async support

[undiplomatic]

Context

Django has introduced native async support. It doesn't appear to be supported by Zappa at this time. Is this something that should be supported moving forwards?

Expected Behavior

views.py

# Helper function
async def lets_sleep():
    print('Starting lets_sleep()')
    await asyncio.sleep(5)
    client = httpx.Client()
    response_p = client.get("https://httpbin.org")
    print(response_p)
    print('Ending lets_sleep()')
    return response_p

# ASync view
async def async1(request):
    print('Starting async0 view')
    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    loop.create_task(lets_sleep())
    print('Ending async0 view')
    return HttpResponse("async1")

Expect output:

Starting async0 view
Ending async0 view
Starting lets_sleep()
<Response [200 OK]>
Ending lets_sleep()

Actual Behavior

Starting async0 view
Ending async0 view
Starting lets_sleep()

Possible Fix

Steps to Reproduce

1. Add helper function
2. Add async view
3. Configure urls.py
4. Call async view from browser

Your Environment

• Zappa version used: 0.54.1
• Operating System and Python version: 3.8
• The output of pip freeze:
• Link to your project (optional):
• Your zappa_settings.json:

[monkut]

Lambda is an ephemeral service that spins up an instance to handle each request. Async assumes that you have a long lived process that continuously handles multiple incoming requests, and implemented in order to share process power more effectively.

So async support doesn't seem to make a lot of sense when using lambda. (However, now that docker images are supported it would make sense there)

It needs investigation, but I wouldn't expect any improvement through the use of async and lambda. In fact, with the additional overhead, I would expect performance to degrade when compared to a non-async version.

(I am personally interested in FastAPI, but haven't used it since it seems to require async. BTW - I think django-ninja is similar, but not as light as FastAPI)

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