another working and better example for hotreload with async

src/config/mod.rs

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ use serde_json::Value as JsonValue;
 use std::fs::File;
 use std::io::Read;
 use std::string::String;
-use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
 use std::time::Duration;
 use tokio::time::sleep;
 
@@ -44,7 +43,7 @@ impl Context {
         };
 
         println!("Loading {configfile} file ...", configfile = ctx.configfile);
-        ctx.cfg.load(&ctx.configfile).await;
+        ctx.cfg.load(&ctx.configfile.to_string()).await;
 
         println!(
             "Adding inotify watch on {configfile} file ...",
@@ -72,19 +71,19 @@ impl Context {
     }*/
 }
 
-pub async fn hotreload(ctx: Context, ctxsender: &tokio::sync::mpsc::Sender<Context>) {
+pub async fn hotreload(ctx: &mut Context, ctxsender: &tokio::sync::mpsc::Sender<Context>) {
     println!("function hotreload, {:?}", ctxsender);
-    let mut sendctx = ctx.clone();
     loop {
-        let events = match ctx.inotify.read_events() {
+        let events = match ctx.to_owned().inotify.read_events() {
             Ok(ev) => ev,
             Err(_) => vec![],
         };
         if events.len() > 0 {
-            sendctx.cfg.load(&sendctx.configfile).await;
+            ctx.cfg.load(&ctx.configfile).await;
+            println!("{cfg:?}", cfg = ctx.cfg);
         }
         println!("Sending {:?}", ctx);
-        ctxsender.send(sendctx.clone()).await;
+        ctxsender.send(ctx.to_owned()).await;
     }
 }
 
@@ -113,7 +112,7 @@ impl<'a> Config {
         }
     }
 
-    async fn load(&mut self, configfile: &str) {
+    async fn load(&mut self, configfile: &String) {
         let mut file = match File::open(configfile) {
             Ok(f) => f,
             Err(err) => {
@@ -121,8 +120,7 @@ impl<'a> Config {
             }
         };
         let mut contents = String::new();
-        let fread = file.read_to_string(&mut contents).unwrap();
+        file.read_to_string(&mut contents).unwrap();
-        println!("{} {} {}", configfile, contents, fread);
         let parse: Result<JsonValue, JsonError> = serde_json::from_str(contents.as_str());
         *self = match parse {
             Ok(cfg) => {
@@ -163,7 +161,7 @@ impl<'a> Config {
         self.save(&configfile).await;
     }
 
-    async fn save(&self, configfile: &str) {
+    async fn save(&self, configfile: &String) {
         let file: File;
         let filemeta = std::fs::metadata(configfile);
         let fileexists = match filemeta {
@@ -173,7 +171,7 @@ impl<'a> Config {
         if !fileexists {
             file = File::create(configfile).unwrap();
             serde_json::to_writer_pretty(file, &self).unwrap();
-            sleep(Duration::from_secs(1)).await;
+            sleep(Duration::from_millis(1)).await;
         }
     }
 }

src/padcontrol/mod.rs

@@ -20,17 +20,17 @@ fn log(num: i64) {
 
 pub async fn run<'a>() {
     log(1);
-    let ctx = Context::new().await;
+    let mut ctx = Box::new(Context::new().await);
     log(2);
     let (tx1, mut rx1) = mpsc::channel(1);
     log(3);
     let t1 = tokio::task::spawn(async move { test(&mut rx1).await });
-    let t2 = tokio::task::spawn(async move { hotreload(ctx.clone(), &tx1).await });
+    let t2 = tokio::task::spawn(async move { hotreload(&mut ctx, &tx1).await });
     tokio::join!(t1, t2);
     log(4);
 }
 
-async fn test<'a>(ctxreceiver: &'a mut tokio::sync::mpsc::Receiver<Context>) {
+async fn test<'a>(ctxreceiver: &mut tokio::sync::mpsc::Receiver<Context>) {
     while let Some(val) = ctxreceiver.recv().await {
         println!("Fetching zabbix problems, {:?}", val.cfg);
         let zabbix_data = get_zabbix_problems(&val.cfg).await.unwrap();