id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	launchpad_bug
2826	CLI: allow dispatch functions to return a Deferred	warner	warner	"This will enable #2490 to run (async) Tor operations during `tahoe create-node --listen=tor`. Currently all CLI dispatch functions must finish synchronously.

The file-operation subcommands, which use blocking `httplib` calls, must be run from unit tests under `deferToThread`. #2825 is about fixing that, but this ticket will do some cleanup that will help. Specifically it will move the deferToThread down into `runner.py`, using the thread only on the subcommands which really need it. After this is fixed, there should be no deferToThread calls in the unit tests.
"	task	closed	normal	1.12.0	code	1.11.0	fixed