Consider using Django 4.1+ Async ORM

[johnthagen]

I believe that the @database_sync_to_async used within this project could be removed by using the Async ORM Interface introduced in Django 4.1.

[YegorDB]

This will be great improvement. Thanks for this idea.

[johnthagen]

You'll want to update the minimum supported Django version, but I suspect most users using this project will want to use as much async as possible.

[johnthagen]

Since this project uses Django directly, I would recommend adding Django to the install_requires explicitly:

django-channels-auth-token-middlewares/setup.py

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install_requires=["channels>=3"],

You probably want to add "django>=3.2" to target the oldest supported Django release, but if you were to rely on the Async ORM interface, then you'd want to bump this to "django>=4.1".

By explicitly listing the dependencies you interact directly, this allows you to control minimum versions you support so you can rely on features like this.

[johnthagen]

Note that I have run into a couple issues related to Channels and the Async ORM:

• Consider mentioning Django's Async ORM Interface django/channels#1999 (comment)

So this may be something that is best deferred until the Async ORM matures and is more widely used.