commands/globals: Convert CallCommand.apply to a coroutine

This allows it to easily wrap calls that are themselves coroutines,
while it's still able to wrap synchronous calls. This fixes the async
test and allows hooks that are coroutines to work.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/alot/commands/globals.py b/alot/commands/globals.py
index f99e5f31..224b671b 100644
--- a/alot/commands/globals.py
+++ b/alot/commands/globals.py
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ class CallCommand(Command):
         Command.__init__(self, **kwargs)
         self.command = command
 
-    def apply(self, ui):
+    async def apply(self, ui):
         try:
             hooks = settings.hooks
             if hooks:
@@ -405,7 +405,9 @@ class CallCommand(Command):
                     if k not in hooks.__dict__:
                         hooks.__dict__[k] = v
 
-            exec(self.command)
+            t = eval(self.command)
+            if asyncio.iscoroutine(t):
+                await t
         except Exception as e:
             logging.exception(e)
             msg = 'an error occurred during execution of "%s":\n%s'