Add support for forcing some long running methods to be called in asy…

…nc mode from command line.

etc/async_methods.conf

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[main]
+force_async = command.run, yumcmd.update, virt.install

func.spec

@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ rm -fr $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %dir %{_sysconfdir}/%{name}/minion-acl.d/
 %dir /etc/func/modules/
 %config(noreplace) /etc/func/minion.conf
+%config(noreplace) /etc/func/async_methods.conf
 %config(noreplace) /etc/logrotate.d/func_rotate
 %dir %{python_sitelib}/func
 %dir %{python_sitelib}/func/minion

func/overlord/cmd_modules/call.py

@@ -17,13 +17,19 @@
 import pprint
 import xmlrpclib
 import time
+import sys
 
 from func.overlord import client
 from func.overlord import base_command
+from func.config import read_config, BaseConfig, ListOption
 
 import func.jobthing as jobthing
 
 DEFAULT_FORKS = 1
+config_file = '/etc/func/async_methods.conf'
+
+class CallConfig(BaseConfig):
+    force_async = ListOption('')
 
 class Call(base_command.BaseCommand):
     name = "call"
@@ -126,6 +132,9 @@ def do(self, args):
         # or some sort of shared datastruct?
         #        self.getOverlord()
 
+        call_config = read_config(config_file, CallConfig)
+        if self.method and (self.module+"."+self.method in call_config.force_async):
+            self.options.async=True
 
         self.interactive = False
         self.async = self.options.async

setup.py

@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
                 ],
                 data_files = [(initpath, ["init-scripts/funcd"]),
                               (etcpath,  ["etc/minion.conf"]),
+                              (etcpath,  ["etc/async_methods.conf"]),
                               (manpath,  ["docs/func.1.gz"]),
                               (manpath,  ["docs/func-inventory.1.gz"]),
                               (manpath,  ["docs/funcd.1.gz"]),