Add Async Support

[Archmonger]

Currently, the DownloadView operates as a sync view. It's very possible (and much more efficient) to do everything async.

File reading will have to be done via aiofile in order to not break the ASGI event queue though. After this change, Django versions will need to be limited to 3.1+

[Natim]

Would you be interested to file a PR implementing this?

[Archmonger]

Yes, but my time is spread a bit thin across the projects I currently support. It might take a while for me to get to this.

[Archmonger]

Note: I have an in-progress PR for whitenoise which has an implementation of sending files via async in Django. The implementation in this repo would be heavily similar.

I believe Django supports async iterators within StreamingHttpResponse now. Async support within django-downloadview should be pretty simple to implement especially since I created a Django-compatible async file iterator in that whitenoise PR.

[Archmonger]

I still don't have time to do this PR, but I'm revisiting this issue to add some more details.

I did some testing a while back and determined that current Python versions have best IO performance when using plain python threads.

There are some examples of performant Django ASGI file responses which utilizes async reading in my repo.