Discord.py @tasks.loop equivalent?

[vinicius507]

Greetings,

I'm refactoring a discord.py Discord bot I have using disgord. In it I have some task loops that I'd like to recreate. Is there any built-in method in disgord to create event loops/schedule tasks?

Thanks in advance,
Myriad

[andersfylling]

in python this is just coroutines scheduling if I'm correctly understanding you. Disgord allows you to register a channel for each event type, you can then have a goroutine dedicated for each to process events: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/andersfylling/disgord#hdr-Listen_for_events_using_Channels

outdated docs here (the client.On method no longer exists so you'd use client.Gateway().*Chan(...) instead):
https://github.com/andersfylling/disgord/blob/master/docs/examples/listen-for-messages.md

[vinicius507]

Yes, exacly. I was just asking in case there was a built-in feature to enable coroutines. The coroutines I need to build aren't related to Discord Events. E.g.: a coroutine that sets up an user role depending on a event outside of Discord.

[andersfylling]

sounds like a general Golang question?
to make a function a coroutine you just use "go" when you call it:

go func() {
    // do smth in a co routine
}

so essentially you would write your own goroutine and call the required disgord calls to setup the user. All REST requests are blocking, and there is no way to make them "async". You just have to handle it in a goroutine yourself.

[vinicius507]

Awesome, thanks.