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Thanks for your work on this. If I am willing to hack a bit, is it possible? What is the main obstacle? Is it all middleware?

• m_ke 7y ago
  Andrew gave a recent talk about it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9BAUBEyFgM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9BAUBEyFgM middleware is a part of it, then there's the ORM, caching and anything else that does IO.
• mattrp 7y ago
  If you’re in the hacking mode - what do you think of taking the Django orm and grafting it onto fast api - sort of like a stand-alone sqlalchemy but with all the ease and power or django’s querysets...
  • m_ke 7y ago
    Django ORM is not async so using it with FastAPI would block the event loop. I guess you could wrap the calls in sync_to_async from asgiref but it wouldn't be pretty. Another option is using something like Tom Christie's orm project (https://github.com/encode/orm https://github.com/encode/orm), which is a wrapper on top of sqlachemy with a django like interface.
    • mattrp 7y ago
      Thanks for the suggestion - very interesting.
    • hultner 7y ago
      FastAPI runs blocking IO/sync functions in a separate thread pool to work around this issue.