Support async call by return `Mono<ChatResponse>`

[XhstormR]

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Expected Behavior

The call method of ChatClient supports returning Mono objects to achieve asynchronous calls.

For example：

public interface AsyncChatClient extends ModelClient<Prompt, ChatResponse> {
    @Override
    Mono<ChatResponse> call(Prompt prompt);
}

Current Behavior

Currently, the call method of AzureOpenAiChatClient does not support asynchronous calls. Only the stream method can return a Flux async object, but Flux represents multiple results. I need Mono object which it represent a single result.

Context

I used com.azure:azure-ai-openai SDK before. This SDK provides two type client: OpenAIClient and OpenAIAsyncClient. OpenAIAsyncClient provides complete Mono async support for a single result. But when I migrated to Spring AI, I found that Mono support was not provided.

[markpollack]

Thanks for your input.

[andresssantos]

Any updates on this subject?

[alvarosevilla95]

bumping this, an async endpoint for non-stream responses would be quite useful!

[markpollack]

Hi @alvarosevilla95 @andresssantos we are hoping to address this gap, as well as a non reactive stream based method, by RC1, but unsure if we will make it is time and it may have to wait until a 1.1 release.

[markpollack]

We will have to wait until a post GA release to fill this gap.