also have tokio do streaming json parsing

src/subsonic.rs

@@ -87,7 +87,48 @@ impl Client {
         })
     }
 
-    async fn get<T: serde::de::DeserializeOwned>(
+    async fn send<T: serde::de::DeserializeOwned + Send + 'static>(
+        &self,
+        request: reqwest::RequestBuilder,
+    ) -> Result<T, Error> {
+        // FIXME: is an entire channel per request overkill? maybe pool them?
+        let (sender, receiver) = async_channel::bounded(1);
+
+        // let tokio take care of the request + further json parsing
+        // this is because reqwest doesn't like the glib main loop
+        // note that this is why those silly bounds on T are needed, because we're
+        // sending back the result of the query from another thread
+        let future = request.send();
+        runtime().spawn(async move {
+            // wrap this logic in a fn so we can use ?
+            async fn perform<T: serde::de::DeserializeOwned + Send + 'static>(
+                response: Result<reqwest::Response, reqwest::Error>,
+            ) -> Result<schema::SubsonicResponse<T>, reqwest::Error> {
+                Ok(response?
+                    .error_for_status()?
+                    .json::<schema::SubsonicResponseOuter<T>>()
+                    .await?
+                    .subsonic_response)
+            }
+
+            sender
+                .send(perform(future.await).await)
+                .await
+                .expect("could not send subsonic response back to the main loop");
+        });
+
+        let response = receiver
+            .recv()
+            .await
+            .expect("could not receive subsonic response from tokio")?;
+
+        match response {
+            schema::SubsonicResponse::Ok { inner } => Ok(inner),
+            schema::SubsonicResponse::Failed { error } => Err(Error::SubsonicError(error)),
+        }
+    }
+
+    async fn get<T: serde::de::DeserializeOwned + Send + 'static>(
         &self,
         path: &[&str],
         query: &[(&str, &str)],
@@ -97,32 +138,7 @@ impl Client {
             // literally can't fail
             .unwrap_or_else(|_| unsafe { std::hint::unreachable_unchecked() })
             .extend(path);
-
+        self.send(self.client.get(url).query(query)).await
-        // FIXME: is an entire channel per request overkill? maybe pool them?
-        let (sender, receiver) = async_channel::bounded(1);
-
-        let future = self.client.get(url).query(query).send();
-        runtime().spawn(async move {
-            let response = future.await;
-            sender
-                .send(response)
-                .await
-                .expect("could not send subsonic response back to the main loop");
-        });
-
-        let response = receiver
-            .recv()
-            .await
-            .expect("could not receive subsonic response from tokio")?
-            .error_for_status()?
-            .json::<schema::SubsonicResponseOuter<T>>()
-            .await?
-            .subsonic_response;
-
-        match response {
-            schema::SubsonicResponse::Ok { inner } => Ok(inner),
-            schema::SubsonicResponse::Failed { error } => Err(Error::SubsonicError(error)),
-        }
     }
 
     pub async fn ping(&self) -> Result<(), Error> {