Async support?

[Kixunil]

As a networking-related dependency, this would be a great candidate for making it async.

[oleonardolima]

As I mentioned at bitcoindevkit/bdk#66 I guess it would also make it possible to add Tor support using arti-client.

[Kixunil]

@oleonardolima I think just make it possible to switch up any transport layer using a trait. Probably tokio::AsyncRead etc.

[oleonardolima]

Good, that makes sense. I'll try to take a look at it after adding the support on rust-esplora-client

[Kixunil]

@oleonardolima FYI I hand-wrote an async client with a few methods that were required for my project. I may be able to publish it as it may serve as a starting point.

[oleonardolima]

@Kixunil Cool! Thanks, that would be really helpful and a great starting point.

[RCasatta]

I just finished here thinking to trying to use arti_client with rust-electrum-client but noting that is async based while this is not.

Even some temporary hack like SyncIoBridge seems not easily applicable here, because the stream is not handled splitted (separated Read/Write)

[Kixunil]

@RCasatta yeah, IIRC that's why I ended up writing my own and as I did I found that the whole thing is quite involved.

@oleonardolima sorry to keep you waiting this long I will try soon.

[oleonardolima]

@Kixunil No worries, I'm still working on fedimint and rust-esplora-client tor support at the moment, but let me know when you do it.

[Kixunil]

It's out now: https://github.com/Kixunil/async-electrum-client

[oleonardolima]

update: I'll probably start working on this during this week, using the @Kixunil work as a starting point.

Do you have any other approach in mind @RCasatta ?

[RCasatta]

Do you have any other approach in mind @RCasatta ?

No

[jurvis]

@oleonardolima curious, are you still actively working on this?

[oleonardolima]

@jurvis I'm not currently working on this, other issues took priority, although it's still on my list. Is it a pressing issue/feature that you need?

[jurvis]

@oleonardolima not pressing, just asking! do you have a draft branch going somewhere?