dir(solver_session) is slow for the first time after connecting to Fluent

[mkundu1]

This is due to the one-time call to the settings API static-info, the issue is more prominent in the pyconsole autocompleter

[prmukherj]

@mkundu1, you are already working on this in the server side, right?

[mkundu1]

This has been resolved in Fluent/PyConsole, I'll remove the console integration tag.

For PyFluent, we start populating the dir in a background thread immediately after connection, will look into that later.

[mkundu1]

Currently, first access to settings API is slow:

import time
import ansys.fluent.core as pyfluent
solver = pyfluent.launch_fluent()
start_time = time.time()
solver.settings
print("Elapsed time: ", time.time() - start_time)
start_time = time.time()
solver.settings
print("Elapsed time: ", time.time() - start_time)

Above code prints

Elapsed time:  4.425086736679077
Elapsed time:  0.0

[mkundu1]

Most of the time is taken to retrieve the static-info (for hash comparison) - ~ 4 s.