# Objective
Currently, bevy supports custom asset loading via `AssetServer:;add`,
which allows you to add arbitrary assets to the asset system and returns
a handle to it. However this only works for assets that have already
been fully loaded. If your loading logic involves any async, you need to
wait until the asset is done loading before adding it to the server.
This is problematic, as the `Handle` does not get allocated until the
very end, which makes it very difficult to use and defeats the value of
having handles for asynchronously-loaded assets.
## Solution
Add the method `AssetServer::add_async`. This has the same behavior as
`AssetServer::add`, only it accepts a future instead of a fully loaded
asset.
## Testing
I added an identical method to my company's fork of bevy, which works in
our app. I'm not quite sure how to go about adding an actual unit test
for asset loading behvior, but I will note that `AssetServer::add` also
does not appear to have any tests.
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## Changelog
+ Added `AssetServer::add_async`, which allows adding assets with custom
asynchronous loading behavior to the `AssetServer`
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