using async resolvers for third-party api calls

Hi, I’m trying to do some api calls outside of django with graphene-django. However, I cannot figure out how to do this with the GraphQLView from graphene_django.views in urls.py.

schema.py

import graphene
import requests

url = 'https://www.passwordrandom.com/query?command=int&format=json'

class RandomNumberType(graphene.ObjectType):
    number = graphene.Int()

    async def resolve_number(self, info):
        session = info.context["session"]
        async with session.get(url) as response:
            result = await response.json()
            return result['random'][0]

class Query(graphene.ObjectType):
    random_numbers = graphene.List(RandomNumberType)

    def resolve_random_numbers(self, info):
        return [RandomNumberType()] * 5

schema = graphene.Schema(query=Query)

This schema works when I run it in a simple test by executing python async_resolvers_test.py. It will print {'randomNumbers': [{'number': 70}, {'number': 2}, {'number': 34}, {'number': 34}, {'number': 70}]} within a second as the individual requests are called parallel.

async_resolvers_test.py:

import aiohttp
import asyncio
from graphql.execution.executors.asyncio import AsyncioExecutor

from async_resolvers.schema import schema

async def main():
    query = """
        {
          randomNumbers {
              number
          }
        }
    """
    async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
        res = await schema.execute(
            query,
            context={"session": session,},
            executor=AsyncioExecutor(loop=asyncio.get_running_loop()),
            return_promise=True,
        )
        assert not res.errors, repr(res.errors)
        print(res.data)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

Now, I would like to do the same thing for every execution with graphene-django, but I cannot work out how to do this. I have tried many things, but nothing works (for example adding executor=AsyncExecutor() to GraphQLView.as_view(...)).

urls.py:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
from graphene_django.views import GraphQLView

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path("graphql", GraphQLView.as_view(graphiql=True)),
]

I am getting this error: There is no current event loop in thread 'Thread-1', when I try to execute in GraphiQL:

{
  randomNumbers {
    number
  }
}

I am sure this has something to do with not properly setting up an async session, but I get very confused with everything that is out there and I thus have no idea how to do this.

Please let me know if you have any idea or if anything here is unclear. Thanks in advance!

[Suor]

Apparently setting executor doesn’t work. It would be nice to have this since Django 3.1 already have async views.

[blazing-gig]

It would be really nice to have a separate AsyncGraphQLView similar to this one from the Strawberry library. Any suggestions or alternatives would be really appreciated as well.