python - RuntimeError: Timeout context manager should be used inside a task

Question

Background: I am hosting a flask server alongside a discord client

The flask server just needs to pass on messages from the client to discord and from messages from discord to the client.

I am getting the error when I call loop.run_until_complete(sendMsg(request)) I have tried wait_for in sendMsg and wait_for loop.run_until_complete()

I have looked everywhere and haven't found anything so any help would be appreciated.

Code:

import discord
import json
import os
import asyncio
from flask import Flask, request, render_template
from async_timeout import timeout
from threading import Thread
from time import sleep

client = discord.Client()
messages = []
app = Flask(__name__)

def startClient():
    loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
    asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
    client.run('token')


#
# Discord Events
#
@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print('Discord Client Ready')

@client.event
async def on_message(message):

    global messages
    message.append(message)


#
# Flask Stuff
#
async def sendMsg(request):
    await client.send_message(discord.Object('channel id'), request.form['message'])


@app.route("/chat/", methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def chatPage():
    global messages

    if request.method == 'GET':
        return render_template('main.html')

    elif request.method == 'POST':
        loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
        loop.run_until_complete(sendMsg(request))
        return ''

@app.route("/chat/get", methods=['GET'])
def chatGet():
    return json.dumps(messages[int(request.args['lastMessageId']):])


# Start everything
os.environ["WERKZEUG_RUN_MAIN"] = 'true'
print('Starting discord.py client')
Thread(target=startClient).start()
print('Starting flask')
app.run(host='0.0.0.0', debug=True)

Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/SuperKooks/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 2309, in __call__
    return self.wsgi_app(environ, start_response)
  File "/home/SuperKooks/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 2295, in wsgi_app
    response = self.handle_exception(e)
  File "/home/SuperKooks/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1741, in handle_exception
    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
  File "/home/SuperKooks/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/_compat.py", line 35, in reraise
    raise value
  File "/home/SuperKooks/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 2292, in wsgi_app
    response = self.full_dispatch_request()
  File "/home/SuperKooks/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1815, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
  File "/home/SuperKooks/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1718, in handle_user_exception
    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
  File "/home/SuperKooks/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/_compat.py", line 35, in reraise
    raise value
  File "/home/SuperKooks/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1813, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.dispatch_request()
  File "/home/SuperKooks/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1799, in dispatch_request
    return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)
  File "/mnt/c/Users/SuperKooks/Documents/Coding/HTML/kindle-discord/app.py", line 51, in chatPage
    loop.run_until_complete(sendMsg(request))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/base_events.py", line 387, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/futures.py", line 274, in result
    raise self._exception
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/tasks.py", line 239, in _step
    result = coro.send(None)
  File "/mnt/c/Users/SuperKooks/Documents/Coding/HTML/kindle-discord/app.py", line 39, in sendMsg
    await client.send_message(discord.Object('382416348007104513'), request.form['message'])
  File "/home/SuperKooks/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 1152, in send_message
    data = yield from self.http.send_message(channel_id, content, guild_id=guild_id, tts=tts, embed=embed)
  File "/home/SuperKooks/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/discord/http.py", line 137, in request
    r = yield from self.session.request(method, url, **kwargs)
  File "/home/SuperKooks/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/aiohttp/client.py", line 555, in __iter__
    resp = yield from self._coro
  File "/home/SuperKooks/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/aiohttp/client.py", line 197, in _request
    with Timeout(timeout, loop=self._loop):
  File "/home/SuperKooks/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/async_timeout/__init__.py", line 39, in __enter__
    return self._do_enter()
  File "/home/SuperKooks/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/async_timeout/__init__.py", line 76, in _do_enter
    raise RuntimeError('Timeout context manager should be used '
RuntimeError: Timeout context manager should be used inside a task

Answer 1

aiohttp.ClientSession() wants to be called inside a coroutine. Try moving your Client() initializer into any async def function