Merge pull request #1956 from MycroftAI/feature/threaded-common-query

Run common query skill queries in threads

mycroft/skills/common_query_skill.py

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ from enum import IntEnum
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from mycroft import MycroftSkill
 from mycroft.messagebus.message import Message
+from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool
 
 
 class CQSMatchLevel(IntEnum):
@@ -41,6 +42,8 @@ def handles_visuals(self, platform):
 
 
 class CommonQuerySkill(MycroftSkill, ABC):
+    pool = ThreadPool(5)
+
     def __init__(self, name=None, bus=None):
         super().__init__(name, bus)
 
@@ -51,6 +54,10 @@ class CommonQuerySkill(MycroftSkill, ABC):
             self.add_event('question:action', self.__handle_query_action)
 
     def __handle_question_query(self, message):
+        CommonQuerySkill.pool.apply_async(self.__thread_question_query,
+                                          args=[message])
+
+    def __thread_question_query(self, message):
         search_phrase = message.data["phrase"]
 
         # First, notify the requestor that we are attempting to handle