Option for generating code without async?

[adisunw]

I have some infrastructure developed around the previously gen'd grpc code, however I would really like to adopt betterproto for all its extra pythonic features.

The only hurdle i'm facing is that the async implementation is turned on by default. Is there a way to turn this off and not have the async gen code?

[nat-n]

Similar issue: #44

[githorse]

Just to clarify beyond all doubt here -- for the moment the answer here is no, correct? We can't turn off async/await in the generated stub?

[nat-n]

@githorse your assessment is correct.

[hiagopdutra]

This library does not work for Cloud Run due to the lack of this functionality. If it worked for sure betterproto would be the best option.

[zbentley]

What about using native Python's async-to-sync functionality? That is, given an async RPC method called via result = await ServiceStub.some_method(), you could do either:

result = asyncio.run(ServiceStub.some_method())

...if you wanted to start and stop the event loop just for that method. If that incurs too much overhead, you could call into an existing event loop via something like:

result = asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(ServiceStub.some_method(), loop=asyncio.get_event_loop()).result()

@nat-n if that satisfies user requirements, would you accept a PR documenting that technique?