Bleh! Ok make `open_symcache()` and `@acm`..

Turns in order to make things much cleaner from inside-the-runtime usage
we do probably want to just make the manager async so that we can
generate the cache on demand from async UI inits as well as daemon
actors.. So change to that and instead make `get_symcache()` the helper
that should ONLY be called from sync funcs / offline ledger processing
utils!

piker/data/_symcache.py

@@ -25,8 +25,7 @@ offline usage.
 '''
 from __future__ import annotations
 from contextlib import (
-    # asynccontextmanager as acm,
+    asynccontextmanager as acm,
-    contextmanager as cm,
 )
 from pathlib import Path
 from pprint import pformat
@@ -38,15 +37,20 @@ from types import ModuleType
 
 from fuzzywuzzy import process as fuzzy
 import tomli_w  # for fast symbol cache writing
+import tractor
+import trio
 try:
     import tomllib
 except ModuleNotFoundError:
     import tomli as tomllib
 from msgspec import field
 
-from ..log import get_logger
+from piker.log import get_logger
-from .. import config
+from piker import config
-from ..brokers import open_cached_client
+from piker.brokers import (
+    open_cached_client,
+    get_brokermod,
+)
 from .types import Struct
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -166,13 +170,19 @@ class SymbologyCache(Struct):
 _caches: dict[str, SymbologyCache] = {}
 
 
-@cm
+@acm
-def open_symcache(
+async def open_symcache(
-    mod: ModuleType,
+    mod_or_name: ModuleType | str,
     reload: bool = False,
+    only_from_memcache: bool = False,
 
 ) -> SymbologyCache:
 
+    if isinstance(mod_or_name, str):
+        mod = get_brokermod(mod_or_name)
+    else:
+        mod: ModuleType = mod_or_name
+
     provider: str = mod.name
 
     # actor-level cache-cache XD
@@ -181,8 +191,13 @@ def open_symcache(
         try:
             yield _caches[provider]
         except KeyError:
-            log.warning('No asset info cache exists yet for '
+            msg: str = (
-                        f'`{provider}`')
+                f'No asset info cache exists yet for `{provider}`'
+            )
+            if only_from_memcache:
+                raise RuntimeError(msg)
+            else:
+                log.warning(msg)
 
     cachedir: Path = config.get_conf_dir() / '_cache'
     if not cachedir.is_dir():
@@ -204,23 +219,9 @@ def open_symcache(
         or not cachefile.is_file()
     ):
         log.info(f'GENERATING symbology cache for `{mod.name}`')
+        await cache.load()
 
-        import tractor
+        # NOTE: only (re-)write if explicit reload or non-existing
-        import trio
-
-        # spawn tractor runtime and generate cache
-        # if not existing.
-        async def sched_gen_symcache():
-
-            async with (
-                # only for runtime
-                tractor.open_nursery(debug_mode=True),
-            ):
-                return await cache.load()
-
-        cache: SymbologyCache = trio.run(sched_gen_symcache)
-
-        # only (re-)write if explicit reload or non-existing
         cache.write_config()
 
     else:
@@ -265,7 +266,6 @@ def open_symcache(
 
                 # sanity check asset refs from those (presumably)
                 # loaded asset set above.
-                # src_k: str = pairtable.get('bs_src_asset,
                 src: Asset = cache.assets[mkt.src.name]
                 assert src == mkt.src
                 dst: Asset
@@ -299,19 +299,28 @@ def get_symcache(
 
 ) -> SymbologyCache:
     '''
-    Get any available symbology/assets cache from
+    Get any available symbology/assets cache from sync code by
-    sync code by manually running `trio` to do the work.
+    (maybe) manually running `trio` to do the work.
 
     '''
-    from ..brokers import get_brokermod
+    # spawn tractor runtime and generate cache
+    # if not existing.
+    async def sched_gen_symcache():
+        async with (
+            # only for runtime's debug mode
+            tractor.open_nursery(debug_mode=True),
 
-    try:
+            open_symcache(
-        with open_symcache(
                 get_brokermod(provider),
                 reload=force_reload,
-
+            ) as symcache,
-        ) as symcache:
+        ):
             return symcache
+
+    try:
+        cache: SymbologyCache = trio.run(sched_gen_symcache)
     except BaseException:
         import pdbp
         pdbp.xpm()
+
+    return cache