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fitnesstrax/app/src/main.rs

@@ -37,16 +37,36 @@ const APP_ID_PROD: &str = "com.luminescent-dreams.fitnesstrax";
 
 const RESOURCE_BASE_PATH: &str = "/com/luminescent-dreams/fitnesstrax/";
 
+/// Invocations are how parts of the application, primarily the UI, will send requests to the core.
 #[derive(Debug)]
 enum AppInvocation {
+    /// Tell the core to try to open a database.
     OpenDatabase(PathBuf),
+
+    /// Request a set of records from the core.
+    // Note: this will require a time range, but doesn't yet.
     RequestRecords,
 }
 
+/// Responses are messages that the core sends to the UI. Though they are called responses, the
+/// could actually be pre-emptively sent, such as notifications. The UI will need to be able to
+/// process those any time they arrive.
+///
+/// A typical use would be for the UI to send an [AppInvocation::RequestRecords] request and
+/// receive [AppResponse::Records].
 #[derive(Debug)]
 enum AppResponse {
+    /// No database is available. The UI should typically display a placeholder, such as the
+    /// welcome view.
     NoDatabase,
+
+    /// The database is open and here is a set of records. Typically, the set of records will be
+    /// all of the records within a time frame, but this can actually be any set of records.
     Records,
+
+    /// The database has been changed. This message is useful for telling the UI that a significant
+    /// change has happened. Further, the UI needs to save PathBuf to settings, because the
+    /// gio::Settings system can't be run in the fully async background.
     DatabaseChanged(PathBuf),
 }
 
@@ -411,28 +431,46 @@ fn main() {
         .unwrap();
 
     adw_app.connect_activate(move |adw_app| {
-        let (gtk_tx, gtk_rx) = async_channel::unbounded::<AppResponse>();
+        // These channels are used to send messages to the UI. Anything that needs to send a
+        // message to the UI will send it via `ui_tx`. We will have one single process that owns
+        // `ui_rx`. That process will read messages coming in and send them to AppWindow for proper
+        // processing.
+        //
+        // The core app will usually only send messages in response to a request, but this channel
+        // can also be used to tell the UI that something happened in the background, such as
+        // detecting a watch, detecting new tracks to import, and so forth.
+        let (ui_tx, ui_rx) = async_channel::unbounded::<AppResponse>();
+
+        // These channels are used for communicating with the app. Already I can see that a lot of
+        // different event handlers will need copies of app_tx in order to send requests into the
+        // UI.
         let (app_tx, app_rx) = async_channel::unbounded::<AppInvocation>();
 
         let window = AppWindow::new(app_id, adw_app, app_tx.clone());
 
+        // Spawn a future where the UI will receive messages for the app window. Previously, this
+        // would have been done by creating a glib::MainContext::channel(), but that has been
+        // deprecated since gtk 4.10 in favor of using `async_channel`.
         glib::spawn_future_local(async move {
             // The app requests data to start with. This kicks everything off. The response from
             // the app will cause the window to be updated shortly.
             let _ = app_tx.send(AppInvocation::RequestRecords).await;
 
-            while let Ok(response) = gtk_rx.recv().await {
+            while let Ok(response) = ui_rx.recv().await {
                 println!("response received: {:?}", response);
                 window.process_response(response);
             }
         });
 
+        // The tokio runtime starts up here and will handle all of the asynchronous operations that
+        // the application needs to do. Messages arrive on `app_rx` and responses will be sent via
+        // `ui_tx`.
         runtime.spawn({
             let app = app.clone();
             async move {
                 while let Ok(invocation) = app_rx.recv().await {
                     let response = app.process_invocation(invocation).await;
-                    let _ = gtk_tx.send(response).await;
+                    let _ = ui_tx.send(response).await;
                 }
             }
         });