Loading speasy is slow

[Dolgalad]

• Space Physics WebServices Client version: 0.10.1
• Python version: 3.8
• Operating System: ubuntu

Description

Loading speasy takes a couple seconds. Could we not store the inventory contents in the cache folder, accelerating the module initialization on subsequent imports. Perhaps we could start a detached process (in another thread) who's job would be to check all providers inventory and update the contents of the cache in a non-blocking way On average importing speasy takes 10 seconds on my machine.

What I Did

import time
t0 = time.time()
import speasy as spz
t0 = time.time() - t0
print(f"speasy loaded in {t0} seconds")

Output

speasy loaded in 10.583851099014282 seconds

[Dolgalad]

This is not an issue, sorry for the waste

[jeandet]

@Dolgalad In fact I think, we can keep it open, since:

• this is mostly due to AMDA inventory construction -> getObsDataTree
• it produces a lot of requests on AMDA server
• we'll have more provider and more inventories to build
• CDA inventory won't be built from speasy but more likely from speasy_proxy

I propose to build all inventories from speasy_proxy and distribute them with a new API endpoint.

[jeandet]

Slightly better with #49