cordon off the tokio runtime to the subsonic client

src/main.rs

@@ -30,13 +30,6 @@ pub mod mpv;
 #[link(name = "soup-3.0")]
 extern "C" {}
 
-pub fn runtime() -> &'static tokio::runtime::Runtime {
-    static RUNTIME: std::sync::OnceLock<tokio::runtime::Runtime> = std::sync::OnceLock::new();
-    RUNTIME.get_or_init(|| {
-        tokio::runtime::Runtime::new().expect("could not initialize the tokio runtime")
-    })
-}
-
 fn main() -> glib::ExitCode {
     gio::resources_register_include!("audrey.gresource").expect("could not register resources");
 
@@ -52,7 +45,7 @@ fn main() -> glib::ExitCode {
     let app = Application::new();
 
     // smol test for the subsonic client
-    runtime().spawn(async {
+    glib::spawn_future_local(async {
         let keyring = oo7::Keyring::new().await.unwrap();
         let attributes = vec![("xdg:schema", APP_ID)];
         let items = keyring.search_items(&attributes).await.unwrap();

src/subsonic.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 mod schema;
 
+fn runtime() -> &'static tokio::runtime::Runtime {
+    static RUNTIME: std::sync::OnceLock<tokio::runtime::Runtime> = std::sync::OnceLock::new();
+    RUNTIME.get_or_init(|| {
+        tokio::runtime::Runtime::new().expect("could not initialize the tokio runtime")
+    })
+}
+
 impl<T> schema::SubsonicResponse<T> {
     fn fixup(self) -> Result<T, Error> {
         match self {
@@ -100,11 +107,22 @@ impl Client {
             .unwrap_or_else(|_| unsafe { std::hint::unreachable_unchecked() })
             .extend(path);
 
-        self.client
-            .get(url)
-            .query(query)
-            .send()
-            .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");
+        });
+
+        receiver
+            .recv()
+            .await
+            .expect("could not receive subsonic response from tokio")?
             .error_for_status()?
             .json::<schema::SubsonicResponseOuter<T>>()
             .await?