static exporter in async context

[HerrMuellerluedenscheid]

Hey,

I use tokio and and plotly to plot some data. When using kaleido the plots are exported as expected but switching to the static_exporter feature fails with

Cannot drop a runtime in a context where blocking is not allowed. This happens when a runtime is dropped from within an asynchronous context.

Any hints what I am missing?

Regards

[andrei-ng]

@HerrMuellerluedenscheid , it is beause I am already using a runtime internally. I will work on it to refactor it to add specific async API besides the sync one so that users can use their own runtime and then won't get that error. I will work on it this weekend and would be nice if you could test it on your example/package.

[andrei-ng]

@HerrMuellerluedenscheid I've refactored the plotly_static implementation in #350 to allow for both an async and a sync API.

You cannot use the classical Kaleido API if you want to use async, as you will probbaly encounter the same issue as you highlighted, or similar.

If you want to use the async API, you have to use the pattern illustrated in the example, https://github.com/plotly/plotly.rs/blob/main/examples/static_export/src/bin/async.rs

Please try it out and let me know if it solves your issue. If it does, please close this.

[HerrMuellerluedenscheid]

I solved it in the meantime with a tokio blocking call. But I will give the new async API a shot asap. Thanks for the lightning has respone 👍

[andrei-ng]

I will close this issue. @HerrMuellerluedenscheid , feel free to reopen if you still have problems with static_exporter.