⚙️ refactor: reorganize code & restructure codebase for better maintainability (#207)

src/config/mod.rs

@@ -2,4 +2,3 @@
 //! and convert the config options into rust readable form.
 
 pub mod parser;
-pub mod parser_models;

src/config/parser.rs

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 use crate::handler::paths::{file_path, FileType};
 
-use super::parser_models::Style;
+use crate::models::parser_models::Style;
 use log::LevelFilter;
 use rlua::Lua;
 use std::{collections::HashMap, fs, thread::available_parallelism};
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ pub struct Config {
     /// It stores the option to whether enable or disable debug mode.
     pub debug: bool,
     /// It stores all the engine names that were enabled by the user.
-    pub upstream_search_engines: Vec<crate::engines::engine_models::EngineHandler>,
+    pub upstream_search_engines: Vec<crate::models::engine_models::EngineHandler>,
     /// It stores the time (secs) which controls the server request timeout.
     pub request_timeout: u8,
     /// It stores the number of threads which controls the app will use to run.
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ impl Config {
                     .get::<_, HashMap<String, bool>>("upstream_search_engines")?
                     .into_iter()
                     .filter_map(|(key, value)| value.then_some(key))
-                    .filter_map(|engine| crate::engines::engine_models::EngineHandler::new(&engine))
+                    .filter_map(|engine| crate::models::engine_models::EngineHandler::new(&engine))
                     .collect(),
                 request_timeout: globals.get::<_, u8>("request_timeout")?,
                 threads,

src/engines/duckduckgo.rs

@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ use std::collections::HashMap;
 use reqwest::header::{HeaderMap, CONTENT_TYPE, COOKIE, REFERER, USER_AGENT};
 use scraper::{Html, Selector};
 
-use crate::results::aggregation_models::SearchResult;
+use crate::models::aggregation_models::SearchResult;
 
-use super::engine_models::{EngineError, SearchEngine};
+use crate::models::engine_models::{EngineError, SearchEngine};
 
 use error_stack::{IntoReport, Report, Result, ResultExt};
 

src/engines/mod.rs

@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@
 //! code. Moreover, it also provides a custom error for the upstream search engine handling code.
 
 pub mod duckduckgo;
-pub mod engine_models;
 pub mod searx;

src/engines/searx.rs

@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ use reqwest::header::{HeaderMap, CONTENT_TYPE, COOKIE, REFERER, USER_AGENT};
 use scraper::{Html, Selector};
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 
-use crate::results::aggregation_models::SearchResult;
+use crate::models::aggregation_models::SearchResult;
 
-use super::engine_models::{EngineError, SearchEngine};
+use crate::models::engine_models::{EngineError, SearchEngine};
 use error_stack::{IntoReport, Report, Result, ResultExt};
 
 /// A new Searx engine type defined in-order to implement the `SearchEngine` trait which allows to

src/lib.rs

@@ -9,12 +9,13 @@ pub mod cache;
 pub mod config;
 pub mod engines;
 pub mod handler;
+pub mod models;
 pub mod results;
 pub mod server;
 
 use std::net::TcpListener;
 
-use crate::server::routes;
+use crate::server::router;
 
 use actix_cors::Cors;
 use actix_files as fs;
@@ -81,12 +82,12 @@ pub fn run(listener: TcpListener, config: Config) -> std::io::Result<Server> {
                 fs::Files::new("/images", format!("{}/images", public_folder_path))
                     .show_files_listing(),
             )
-            .service(routes::robots_data) // robots.txt
+            .service(router::robots_data) // robots.txt
-            .service(routes::index) // index page
+            .service(router::index) // index page
-            .service(routes::search) // search page
+            .service(router::search) // search page
-            .service(routes::about) // about page
+            .service(router::about) // about page
-            .service(routes::settings) // settings page
+            .service(router::settings) // settings page
-            .default_service(web::route().to(routes::not_found)) // error page
+            .default_service(web::route().to(router::not_found)) // error page
     })
     .workers(cloned_config_threads_opt as usize)
     // Start server on 127.0.0.1 with the user provided port number. for example 127.0.0.1:8080.

src/models/aggregation_models.rs

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 
-use crate::{config::parser_models::Style, engines::engine_models::EngineError};
+use super::{engine_models::EngineError, parser_models::Style};
 
 /// A named struct to store the raw scraped search results scraped search results from the
 /// upstream search engines before aggregating it.It derives the Clone trait which is needed

src/models/engine_models.rs

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 //! This module provides the error enum to handle different errors associated while requesting data from
 //! the upstream search engines with the search query provided by the user.
 
-use crate::results::aggregation_models::SearchResult;
+use super::aggregation_models::SearchResult;
 use error_stack::{IntoReport, Result, ResultExt};
 use std::{collections::HashMap, fmt, time::Duration};
 
@@ -138,8 +138,11 @@ impl EngineHandler {
     pub fn new(engine_name: &str) -> Option<Self> {
         let engine: (&'static str, Box<dyn SearchEngine>) =
             match engine_name.to_lowercase().as_str() {
-                "duckduckgo" => ("duckduckgo", Box::new(super::duckduckgo::DuckDuckGo)),
+                "duckduckgo" => (
-                "searx" => ("searx", Box::new(super::searx::Searx)),
+                    "duckduckgo",
+                    Box::new(crate::engines::duckduckgo::DuckDuckGo),
+                ),
+                "searx" => ("searx", Box::new(crate::engines::searx::Searx)),
                 _ => return None,
             };
 

src/models/mod.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+//! This module provides modules which in turn provides various models for aggregrating search
+//! results, parsing config file, providing trait to standardize search engine handling code,
+//! custom engine error for the search engine, etc.
+
+pub mod aggregation_models;
+pub mod engine_models;
+pub mod parser_models;
+pub mod server_models;

src/models/server_models.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+//! This module provides the models to parse cookies and search parameters from the search
+//! engine website.
+use serde::Deserialize;
+
+/// A named struct which deserializes all the user provided search parameters and stores them.
+#[derive(Deserialize)]
+pub struct SearchParams {
+    /// It stores the search parameter option `q` (or query in simple words)
+    /// of the search url.
+    pub q: Option<String>,
+    /// It stores the search parameter `page` (or pageno in simple words)
+    /// of the search url.
+    pub page: Option<u32>,
+}
+
+/// A named struct which is used to deserialize the cookies fetched from the client side.
+#[allow(dead_code)]
+#[derive(Deserialize)]
+pub struct Cookie {
+    /// It stores the theme name used in the website.
+    pub theme: String,
+    /// It stores the colorscheme name used for the website theme.
+    pub colorscheme: String,
+    /// It stores the user selected upstream search engines selected from the UI.
+    pub engines: Vec<String>,
+}

src/results/aggregator.rs

@@ -1,27 +1,23 @@
 //! This module provides the functionality to scrape and gathers all the results from the upstream
 //! search engines and then removes duplicate results.
 
+use super::user_agent::random_user_agent;
+use crate::handler::paths::{file_path, FileType};
+use crate::models::{
+    aggregation_models::{EngineErrorInfo, SearchResult, SearchResults},
+    engine_models::{EngineError, EngineHandler},
+};
+use error_stack::Report;
+use rand::Rng;
+use regex::Regex;
 use std::{
     collections::HashMap,
     io::{BufReader, Read},
     time::Duration,
 };
-
-use super::{
-    aggregation_models::{EngineErrorInfo, SearchResult, SearchResults},
-    user_agent::random_user_agent,
-};
-use error_stack::Report;
-use rand::Rng;
-use regex::Regex;
 use std::{fs::File, io::BufRead};
 use tokio::task::JoinHandle;
 
-use crate::{
-    engines::engine_models::{EngineError, EngineHandler},
-    handler::paths::{file_path, FileType},
-};
-
 /// Aliases for long type annotations
 type FutureVec = Vec<JoinHandle<Result<HashMap<String, SearchResult>, Report<EngineError>>>>;
 

src/results/mod.rs

@@ -2,6 +2,5 @@
 //! results from the upstream search engines and filters it if safe search is set to 3 or 4. Also,
 //! provides various models to aggregate search results into a standardized form.
 
-pub mod aggregation_models;
 pub mod aggregator;
 pub mod user_agent;

src/server/mod.rs

@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@
 //! the search route. Also, caches the next, current and previous search results in the search
 //! routes with the help of the redis server.
 
+pub mod router;
 pub mod routes;

src/server/router.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+//! This module provides the functionality to handle different routes of the `websurfx`
+//! meta search engine website and provide appropriate response to each route/page
+//! when requested.
+
+use crate::{
+    config::parser::Config,
+    handler::paths::{file_path, FileType},
+};
+use actix_web::{get, web, HttpRequest, HttpResponse};
+use handlebars::Handlebars;
+use std::fs::read_to_string;
+
+/// Handles the route of index page or main page of the `websurfx` meta search engine website.
+#[get("/")]
+pub async fn index(
+    hbs: web::Data<Handlebars<'_>>,
+    config: web::Data<Config>,
+) -> Result<HttpResponse, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    let page_content: String = hbs.render("index", &config.style).unwrap();
+    Ok(HttpResponse::Ok().body(page_content))
+}
+
+/// Handles the route of any other accessed route/page which is not provided by the
+/// website essentially the 404 error page.
+pub async fn not_found(
+    hbs: web::Data<Handlebars<'_>>,
+    config: web::Data<Config>,
+) -> Result<HttpResponse, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    let page_content: String = hbs.render("404", &config.style)?;
+
+    Ok(HttpResponse::Ok()
+        .content_type("text/html; charset=utf-8")
+        .body(page_content))
+}
+
+/// Handles the route of robots.txt page of the `websurfx` meta search engine website.
+#[get("/robots.txt")]
+pub async fn robots_data(_req: HttpRequest) -> Result<HttpResponse, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    let page_content: String =
+        read_to_string(format!("{}/robots.txt", file_path(FileType::Theme)?))?;
+    Ok(HttpResponse::Ok()
+        .content_type("text/plain; charset=ascii")
+        .body(page_content))
+}
+
+/// Handles the route of about page of the `websurfx` meta search engine website.
+#[get("/about")]
+pub async fn about(
+    hbs: web::Data<Handlebars<'_>>,
+    config: web::Data<Config>,
+) -> Result<HttpResponse, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    let page_content: String = hbs.render("about", &config.style)?;
+    Ok(HttpResponse::Ok().body(page_content))
+}
+
+/// Handles the route of settings page of the `websurfx` meta search engine website.
+#[get("/settings")]
+pub async fn settings(
+    hbs: web::Data<Handlebars<'_>>,
+    config: web::Data<Config>,
+) -> Result<HttpResponse, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
+    let page_content: String = hbs.render("settings", &config.style)?;
+    Ok(HttpResponse::Ok().body(page_content))
+}

src/server/routes/mod.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+//! This module provides modules to handle various routes in the search engine website.
+
+pub mod search;

src/server/routes/search.rs

@@ -1,67 +1,19 @@
-//! This module provides the functionality to handle different routes of the `websurfx`
+//! This module handles the search route of the search engine website.
-//! meta search engine website and provide appropriate response to each route/page
-//! when requested.
-
-use std::fs::read_to_string;
 
 use crate::{
     cache::cacher::RedisCache,
     config::parser::Config,
-    engines::engine_models::EngineHandler,
+    models::{
-    handler::paths::{file_path, FileType},
+        aggregation_models::SearchResults,
-    results::{aggregation_models::SearchResults, aggregator::aggregate},
+        engine_models::EngineHandler,
+        server_models::{Cookie, SearchParams},
+    },
+    results::aggregator::aggregate,
 };
 use actix_web::{get, web, HttpRequest, HttpResponse};
 use handlebars::Handlebars;
-use serde::Deserialize;
 use tokio::join;
 
-/// A named struct which deserializes all the user provided search parameters and stores them.
-#[derive(Deserialize)]
-struct SearchParams {
-    /// It stores the search parameter option `q` (or query in simple words)
-    /// of the search url.
-    q: Option<String>,
-    /// It stores the search parameter `page` (or pageno in simple words)
-    /// of the search url.
-    page: Option<u32>,
-}
-
-/// Handles the route of index page or main page of the `websurfx` meta search engine website.
-#[get("/")]
-pub async fn index(
-    hbs: web::Data<Handlebars<'_>>,
-    config: web::Data<Config>,
-) -> Result<HttpResponse, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
-    let page_content: String = hbs.render("index", &config.style).unwrap();
-    Ok(HttpResponse::Ok().body(page_content))
-}
-
-/// Handles the route of any other accessed route/page which is not provided by the
-/// website essentially the 404 error page.
-pub async fn not_found(
-    hbs: web::Data<Handlebars<'_>>,
-    config: web::Data<Config>,
-) -> Result<HttpResponse, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
-    let page_content: String = hbs.render("404", &config.style)?;
-
-    Ok(HttpResponse::Ok()
-        .content_type("text/html; charset=utf-8")
-        .body(page_content))
-}
-
-/// A named struct which is used to deserialize the cookies fetched from the client side.
-#[allow(dead_code)]
-#[derive(Deserialize)]
-struct Cookie {
-    /// It stores the theme name used in the website.
-    theme: String,
-    /// It stores the colorscheme name used for the website theme.
-    colorscheme: String,
-    /// It stores the user selected upstream search engines selected from the UI.
-    engines: Vec<String>,
-}
-
 /// Handles the route of search page of the `websurfx` meta search engine website and it takes
 /// two search url parameters `q` and `page` where `page` parameter is optional.
 ///
@@ -178,9 +130,7 @@ async fn results(
             // default selected upstream search engines from the config file otherwise
             // parse the non-empty cookie and grab the user selected engines from the
             // UI and use that.
-            let mut results: crate::results::aggregation_models::SearchResults = match req
+            let mut results: SearchResults = match req.cookie("appCookie") {
-                .cookie("appCookie")
-            {
                 Some(cookie_value) => {
                     let cookie_value: Cookie = serde_json::from_str(cookie_value.name_value().1)?;
 
@@ -218,33 +168,3 @@ async fn results(
         }
     }
 }
-
-/// Handles the route of robots.txt page of the `websurfx` meta search engine website.
-#[get("/robots.txt")]
-pub async fn robots_data(_req: HttpRequest) -> Result<HttpResponse, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
-    let page_content: String =
-        read_to_string(format!("{}/robots.txt", file_path(FileType::Theme)?))?;
-    Ok(HttpResponse::Ok()
-        .content_type("text/plain; charset=ascii")
-        .body(page_content))
-}
-
-/// Handles the route of about page of the `websurfx` meta search engine website.
-#[get("/about")]
-pub async fn about(
-    hbs: web::Data<Handlebars<'_>>,
-    config: web::Data<Config>,
-) -> Result<HttpResponse, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
-    let page_content: String = hbs.render("about", &config.style)?;
-    Ok(HttpResponse::Ok().body(page_content))
-}
-
-/// Handles the route of settings page of the `websurfx` meta search engine website.
-#[get("/settings")]
-pub async fn settings(
-    hbs: web::Data<Handlebars<'_>>,
-    config: web::Data<Config>,
-) -> Result<HttpResponse, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
-    let page_content: String = hbs.render("settings", &config.style)?;
-    Ok(HttpResponse::Ok().body(page_content))
-}