Hey all, I’m trying to develop a plugin for Sublime which involves calling an API and handling the response. Currently it works really well, however sometimes the operation take a bit longer (though not noticeable longer) and it triggers the cursor to go into spinning wheel mode. I want to know what is the common practice for plugins to speed up requests sent to APIs? Is it threading? Asynchronous? Multiprocessing? Appreciate any input!
Concurrency practice for handling plugin I/O requests
jfcherng
#2
I used threading and sublime.set_timeout_async().
sublime.set_timeout_async() is handy but it actually blocks another ST’s (non-UI) thread so it’s not suitable for a task which may take a long time. Not sure how asyncio may help since I’ve never seen people use it yet.
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Moon
#3
I’m still learning, so if it’s not too much to ask can you give me some examples of how you handle it? Appreciate your response!
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jfcherng
#4
import threading
def my_function(arg1, arg2) -> None:
print(arg1, arg2)
t = threading.Thread(target=my_function, args=('foo', 'bar'))
t.start()
# -----------------------------------------------------------
import sublime
sublime.set_timeout_async(lambda: my_function('foo', 'bar'))
All functions scheduled by sublime.set_timeout_async() will run in (the same) another thread synchronously (i.e., they block each other).
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