__acl__ was never awaited

[Tears]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for making this library. I'm on my first FastAPI project right now and we're really liking the library so far.

However, we do run into a little problem when using dynamically generated ACL's. Our app is connected via Tortoise ORM to a PostgreSQL-database, from which we are generating the ACL's in the models. We are required to approach the database async, so we need to make the ACL-function in the model async as well. Like this:

async def __acl__(self) -> List:

    acl = []

    # Do stuff with the database here, and append them as rules in the ACL
    # Example:
    async for attendee in self.parent_activity.get_attendees():
        acl.append((Allow, f"user:{attendee.user.id}", "view"))
   

    return acl

However, when checking the object this ACL is attached to via the Permission-function, we are greeted with the following error:

RuntimeWarning: coroutine 'Activity.__acl__' was never awaited

(Activity is the model name)

Could you maybe implement an await for the ACL's? Like I said, this is my first project with FastAPI so maybe I'm using it all wrong, but we are stuck with this now. Thanks in advance!

[holgi]

Hi,

probably you did nothing wrong. I never used an async db access for this - so it's seems to be a case I haven't considered.

I have an idea on how to solve this, I "just" need some time to get to this and I'd like to ask you for some patience.

[Tears]

Hi, thanks for your reply. Could you describe your idea on how to solve this? Maybe I could take a look then and submit a PR.

[jsenecal]

Is there any progress that was made @holgi ? I too, am hitting this bug with motor/beanie

[Gadgetguycj]

Running into the same issue as well, will post any protentional solutions I find