Django asyncio for saving (big amount of) objects - Nothing saved - django

Question

I want to fetch categories from a Magento API and display them in a template. In the same time, I want to save them in DB for an ulterior use.
Categories are too many and the render of the template takes more than 30 sec.
I start to learn using asyncio but couldn't get my way with it. I surely missed something.
First, my URL leads to the function that retrieves the categories
#login_required
def get_categories(request):
Category.objects.all().delete()
try:
cats = fetch_categories()
tree = cats['children_data']
except:
print('erreur : impossible de récupérer les catégories (fetch_categories)')
asyncio.run(parse_categories(tree))
return render(request, 'categories/categories_list.html', {'tree': tree})
When I get the "categories tree", I send it to
async def parse_categories(tree):
for lvl1 in tree:
all_tasks = []
asyncio.create_task(save_cat(lvl1))
# main products categories (turbo, injectors ...)
for lvl2 in lvl1['children_data']:
asyncio.create_task(save_cat(lvl2))
# sub categories like RENAULT, DACIA
for lvl3 in lvl2['children_data']:
asyncio.create_task(save_cat(lvl3))
for lvl4 in lvl3['children_data']:
asyncio.create_task(save_cat(lvl4))
for lvl5 in lvl4['children_data']:
asyncio.create_task(save_cat(lvl5))
My save() function is async. I'm not sure it should be. Before I started using async, it was working.
async def save_cat(cat):
cat_id = cat['id']
new_cat = Category()
new_cat.id = cat_id
new_cat.name = cat.get('name', None)
new_cat.parent = cat.get('parent_id', None)
new_cat.url = cat.get('path', None)
new_cat.is_active = cat.get('is_active', None)
new_cat.position = cat.get('position', None)
new_cat.level = cat.get('level', None)
new_cat.save()
When I run, no error. The context is well sent to the template and displays well. But no category is saved.
I also tried to make a task list with asyncio.create_task in each level and execute the loop at the end of parse_categories() like said in this thread, without success.
all_tasks.append(asyncio.create_task(save_cat(lvl1)))
[...]
responses = asyncio.gather(*all_tasks, return_exceptions=True)
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(responses)
loop.close()
Any clue to solve my case will be welcome