working example for hotreload with async

src/config/mod.rs

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ 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;
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub enum ReloadFrequency {
@@ -69,16 +72,19 @@ impl Context {
     }*/
 }
 
-pub async fn hotreload(rwctx: &tokio::sync::RwLock<Context>) {
-    let mut ctx = rwctx.write().await;
-    let configfile = ctx.configfile.clone();
-    let events = match ctx.inotify.read_events() {
-        Ok(ev) => ev,
-        Err(_) => vec![],
-    };
-    if events.len() > 0 {
-        println!("Reloading {cfg}", cfg = ctx.configfile);
-        ctx.cfg.load(configfile.as_str()).await;
+pub async fn hotreload(ctx: Context, ctxsender: &tokio::sync::mpsc::Sender<Context>) {
+    println!("function hotreload, {:?}", ctxsender);
+    let mut sendctx = ctx.clone();
+    loop {
+        let events = match ctx.inotify.read_events() {
+            Ok(ev) => ev,
+            Err(_) => vec![],
+        };
+        if events.len() > 0 {
+            sendctx.cfg.load(&sendctx.configfile).await;
+        }
+        println!("Sending {:?}", ctx);
+        ctxsender.send(sendctx.clone()).await;
     }
 }
 
@@ -115,7 +121,8 @@ impl<'a> Config {
             }
         };
         let mut contents = String::new();
-        file.read_to_string(&mut contents).unwrap();
+        let fread = 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) => {
@@ -163,11 +170,10 @@ impl<'a> Config {
             Ok(_) => true,
             Err(_) => false,
         };
-        if fileexists {
+        if !fileexists {
             file = File::create(configfile).unwrap();
-        } else {
-            file = File::open(configfile).unwrap();
+            serde_json::to_writer_pretty(file, &self).unwrap();
+            sleep(Duration::from_secs(1)).await;
         }
-        serde_json::to_writer_pretty(file, &self).unwrap();
     }
 }

src/padcontrol/mod.rs

@@ -2,12 +2,9 @@ use crate::config::{hotreload, Context};
 use crate::zabbix::api::*;
 use launchy::Color;
 use launchy::{self, Canvas, CanvasLayout, CanvasLayoutPoller, MsgPollingWrapper, Pad};
-//use std::process::exit;
-//use std::sync::mpsc::{channel, Receiver, Sender};
-use std::sync::Arc;
-use std::thread::sleep;
 use std::time::Duration;
-use tokio::sync::RwLock;
+use tokio::sync::mpsc;
+use tokio::time::sleep;
 
 const MATRIX_WIDTH: i32 = 8;
 const MATRIX_SIZE: i32 = MATRIX_WIDTH * MATRIX_WIDTH;
@@ -15,34 +12,32 @@ const REQUEST_WAITFOR: i32 = 5;
 const ZERO_COLOR: f32 = 0.;
 const ONE_COLOR: f32 = 1.;
 
-pub async fn run() {
-    println!("test1 🦀");
-    let ctx = Context::new().await;
-    println!("test2 🦀");
-    let e = Arc::new(RwLock::new(ctx));
-    let mutedctx = e.clone();
-    println!("test3 🦀{}", e);
-    loop {
-        println!("test4 🦀");
-        tokio::spawn(async move { test(&mutedctx) });
-        println!("test5 🦀");
-        /*tokio::select! {
-            _ = test(&mutedctx) => {
-                println!("fn test 🦀 {:?}", mutedctx);
-            }
-            _ = hotreload(&mutedctx) => {
-                println!("fn hotreload 🦀 {:?}", mutedctx);
-            }
-        };*/
-    }
+const POLLER_ITER: u64 = 17;
+
+fn log(num: i64) {
+    return println!("test{} 🦀", num);
 }
 
-async fn test(roctx: &'static tokio::sync::RwLock<Context>) {
-    let ctx = roctx.read().await;
-    println!("{:?}", ctx);
-    let zabbix_data = get_zabbix_problems(&ctx.cfg).await.unwrap();
-    println!("{} {:?}", zabbix_data, ctx.cfg);
-    sleep(Duration::from_secs(ctx.cfg.refresh.unwrap()));
+pub async fn run<'a>() {
+    log(1);
+    let ctx = 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 });
+    tokio::join!(t1, t2);
+    log(4);
+}
+
+async fn test<'a>(ctxreceiver: &'a 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();
+        println!("{}", zabbix_data["result"][0]);
+        println!("sleeping during {}", val.cfg.refresh.unwrap());
+        sleep(Duration::from_secs(val.cfg.refresh.unwrap())).await;
+    }
 }
 
 fn initpad() -> (CanvasLayout<'static>, CanvasLayoutPoller) {
@@ -63,7 +58,10 @@ fn initpad() -> (CanvasLayout<'static>, CanvasLayoutPoller) {
 
 fn input(canvas: &mut CanvasLayout, poller: &mut CanvasLayoutPoller) {
     for color in (0u64..).map(|f| Color::red_green_color(f as f32 / 60.0 / 2.5)) {
-        for msg in poller.iter_for_millis(17).filter(|msg| msg.is_press()) {
+        for msg in poller
+            .iter_for_millis(POLLER_ITER)
+            .filter(|msg| msg.is_press())
+        {
             canvas[msg.pad()] = color;
             println!("{msg:?}", msg = msg.pad())
         }