use unbounded_channel instead of VecDeque

src/main.rs

@@ -5,13 +5,11 @@ extern crate tokio;
 use async_zip::read::fs::ZipFileReader;
 use async_zip::write::{EntryOptions, ZipFileWriter};
 use async_zip::Compression;
-use std::collections::VecDeque;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 use std::str::FromStr;
-use std::sync::Arc;
 use tokio::fs;
 use tokio::io::{AsyncBufReadExt, AsyncReadExt, BufReader};
-use tokio::sync::Mutex;
+use tokio::sync::mpsc::{self, UnboundedReceiver, UnboundedSender};
 
 const INPUT_FILENAME: &str = "baza_utf8.zip";
 const OUTPUT_FILENAME: &str = "json.zip";
@@ -273,15 +271,14 @@ async fn parse_file(
     Ok(parser.get_parsed())
 }
 
-struct WriteQueueItem {
+#[derive(Debug)]
+struct ConvertedFile {
     name: String,
     data: String,
 }
 
-type WriteQueue = Arc<Mutex<VecDeque<Option<WriteQueueItem>>>>;
-
 /// read txt files from zip and convert to json
-async fn reader_converter(queue: WriteQueue) {
+async fn reader_converter(tx: UnboundedSender<ConvertedFile>) {
     // open archive just to list files
     let archive = ZipFileReader::new(String::from(INPUT_FILENAME))
         .await
@@ -305,56 +302,29 @@ async fn reader_converter(queue: WriteQueue) {
         // dump json to str
         let data = new_data.pretty(2);
 
-        // add to queue
-        queue
-            .lock()
-            .await
-            .push_back(Some(WriteQueueItem { name, data }));
+        tx.send(ConvertedFile { name, data }).unwrap();
     }
-    // mark queue as done for writer to exit loop
-    queue.lock().await.push_back(None);
 
     println!("convert done ✅");
 }
 
-
 /// write json data to zip files
-async fn zip_writer(queue: WriteQueue) {
+async fn zip_writer(mut rx: UnboundedReceiver<ConvertedFile>) {
     let mut file = fs::File::create(OUTPUT_FILENAME).await.unwrap();
     let mut writer = ZipFileWriter::new(&mut file);
 
-    let mut is_reading_done = false;
-    loop {
-        let mut queue_locked = queue.lock().await;
-        if queue_locked.is_empty() {
-            drop(queue_locked);
-            if is_reading_done {
-                break;
-            }
-            tokio::time::sleep(tokio::time::Duration::from_micros(50)).await;
-            continue;
-        }
+    while let Some(ConvertedFile { name, data }) = rx.recv().await {
+        // make output filename
+        let mut outfilename = PathBuf::from(name);
+        outfilename.set_extension("json");
+        let outfilename = outfilename.to_str().unwrap().to_string();
+        let opts = EntryOptions::new(outfilename, OUTPUT_COMPRESSION);
 
-        let item = queue_locked.pop_front().unwrap();
-        drop(queue_locked);
-        match item {
-            None => {
-                is_reading_done = true;
-            }
-            Some(WriteQueueItem { name, data }) => {
-                // make output filename
-                let mut outfilename = PathBuf::from(name);
-                outfilename.set_extension("json");
-                let outfilename = outfilename.to_str().unwrap().to_string();
-                let opts = EntryOptions::new(outfilename, OUTPUT_COMPRESSION);
-
-                // write new zip entry
-                writer
-                    .write_entry_whole(opts, data.as_bytes())
-                    .await
-                    .unwrap();
-            }
-        }
+        // write new zip entry
+        writer
+            .write_entry_whole(opts, data.as_bytes())
+            .await
+            .unwrap();
     }
     writer.close().await.unwrap();
 
@@ -369,13 +339,11 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
         _ => (),
     };
 
-    let queue: WriteQueue = Arc::new(Mutex::new(VecDeque::with_capacity(5000)));
-    let queue_r = Arc::clone(&queue);
-    let queue_w = Arc::clone(&queue);
+    let (tx, rx) = mpsc::unbounded_channel::<ConvertedFile>();
 
     tokio::try_join!(
-        tokio::spawn(reader_converter(queue_r)),
-        tokio::spawn(zip_writer(queue_w))
+        tokio::spawn(reader_converter(tx)),
+        tokio::spawn(zip_writer(rx))
     )?;
 
     println!("all done ✅");