changed to an "event bus" approach in the message queue, fixed unset download parameters.

go.mod

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ module github.com/marcopeocchi/yt-dlp-web-ui
 go 1.22
 
 require (
+	github.com/asaskevich/EventBus v0.0.0-20200907212545-49d423059eef
 	github.com/go-chi/chi/v5 v5.0.12
 	github.com/go-chi/cors v1.2.1
 	github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5 v5.2.1

go.sum

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+github.com/asaskevich/EventBus v0.0.0-20200907212545-49d423059eef h1:2JGTg6JapxP9/R33ZaagQtAM4EkkSYnIAlOG5EI8gkM=
+github.com/asaskevich/EventBus v0.0.0-20200907212545-49d423059eef/go.mod h1:JS7hed4L1fj0hXcyEejnW57/7LCetXggd+vwrRnYeII=
 github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4 v4.0.0/go.mod h1:eEew/i+1Q6OrCDZh3WiXYv3+nJwBASZ8Bog/87DQnVg=
 github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4 v4.2.1 h1:y4OZtCnogmCPw98Zjyt5a6+QwPLGkiQsYW5oUqylYbM=
 github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4 v4.2.1/go.mod h1:Y3VNntkOUPxTVeUxJ/G5vcM//AlwfmyYozVcomhLiZE=

main.go

@@ -39,10 +39,14 @@ var (
 )
 
 func init() {
+	qs := runtime.NumCPU() - 1
+	if qs == 0 {
+		qs = 1
+	}
 
 	flag.StringVar(&host, "host", "0.0.0.0", "Host where server will listen at")
 	flag.IntVar(&port, "port", 3033, "Port where server will listen at")
-	flag.IntVar(&queueSize, "qs", runtime.NumCPU(), "Download queue size")
+	flag.IntVar(&queueSize, "qs", qs, "Download queue size")
 
 	flag.StringVar(&configFile, "conf", "./config.yml", "Config file path")
 	flag.StringVar(&downloadPath, "out", ".", "Where files will be saved")

server/internal/message_queue.go

@@ -2,13 +2,15 @@ package internal
 
 import (
 	"log/slog"
-	"runtime"
 
+	evbus "github.com/asaskevich/EventBus"
 	"github.com/marcopeocchi/yt-dlp-web-ui/server/config"
 )
 
+const queueName = "process:pending"
+
 type MessageQueue struct {
-	producerCh chan *Process
+	eventBus   evbus.Bus
 	consumerCh chan struct{}
 	metadataCh chan struct{}
 	logger     *slog.Logger
@@ -16,19 +18,21 @@ type MessageQueue struct {
 
 // Creates a new message queue.
 // By default it will be created with a size equals to nthe number of logical
-// CPU cores.
+// CPU cores -1.
 // The queue size can be set via the qs flag.
 func NewMessageQueue(l *slog.Logger) *MessageQueue {
-	size := config.Instance().QueueSize
+	qs := config.Instance().QueueSize
 
-	if size <= 0 {
+	if qs <= 0 {
 		panic("invalid queue size")
 	}
 
+	mqs := 1
+
 	return &MessageQueue{
-		producerCh: make(chan *Process, size),
+		eventBus:   evbus.New(),
-		consumerCh: make(chan struct{}, size),
+		consumerCh: make(chan struct{}, qs),
-		metadataCh: make(chan struct{}, runtime.NumCPU()),
+		metadataCh: make(chan struct{}, mqs),
 		logger:     l,
 	}
 }
@@ -36,39 +40,62 @@ func NewMessageQueue(l *slog.Logger) *MessageQueue {
 // Publish a message to the queue and set the task to a peding state.
 func (m *MessageQueue) Publish(p *Process) {
 	p.SetPending()
-	m.metadataCh <- struct{}{}
 
-	go func() {
+	m.eventBus.Publish(queueName, p)
-		if err := p.SetMetadata(); err != nil {
-			m.logger.Error(
-				"failed to retrieve metadata",
-				slog.String("err", err.Error()),
-			)
-		}
-		<-m.metadataCh
-	}()
-
-	m.producerCh <- p
 }
 
 // Setup the consumer listener which subscribes to the changes to the producer
 // channel and triggers the "download" action.
 func (m *MessageQueue) Subscriber() {
-	for msg := range m.producerCh {
+	go m.metadataSubscriber()
-		m.consumerCh <- struct{}{}
+
-		go func(p *Process) {
+	m.eventBus.SubscribeAsync(queueName, func(p *Process) {
+		m.logger.Info("received process from event bus",
+			slog.String("bus", queueName),
+			slog.String("consumer", "downloadConsumer"),
+			slog.String("id", p.Id),
+		)
+
+		go func() {
+			m.consumerCh <- struct{}{}
 			p.Start()
+
+			m.logger.Info("started process",
+				slog.String("bus", queueName),
+				slog.String("id", p.Id),
+			)
+
 			<-m.consumerCh
-		}(msg)
+		}()
-	}
+	}, false)
 }
 
 // Empties the message queue
 func (m *MessageQueue) Empty() {
-	for range m.producerCh {
-		<-m.producerCh
-	}
 	for range m.consumerCh {
 		<-m.consumerCh
 	}
 }
+
+// Setup the metadata consumer listener which subscribes to the changes to the
+// producer channel and adds metadata to each download.
+func (m *MessageQueue) metadataSubscriber() {
+	m.eventBus.SubscribeAsync(queueName, func(p *Process) {
+		m.metadataCh <- struct{}{}
+
+		m.logger.Info("received process from event bus",
+			slog.String("bus", queueName),
+			slog.String("consumer", "metadataConsumer"),
+			slog.String("id", p.Id),
+		)
+
+		if err := p.SetMetadata(); err != nil {
+			m.logger.Error("failed to retrieve metadata",
+				slog.String("id", p.Id),
+				slog.String("err", err.Error()),
+			)
+		}
+
+		<-m.metadataCh
+	}, false)
+}

server/internal/playlist.go

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ func PlaylistDetect(req DownloadRequest, mq *MessageQueue, db *MemoryDB, logger
 		return err
 	}
 
-	logger.Info("decoding metadata", slog.String("url", req.URL))
+	logger.Info("decoding playlist metadata", slog.String("url", req.URL))
 
 	if err := json.NewDecoder(stdout).Decode(&m); err != nil {
 		return err

server/internal/process.go

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ func (p *Process) Start() {
 
 	go p.GetFileName(&out)
 
-	params := []string{
+	baseParams := []string{
 		strings.Split(p.Url, "?list")[0], //no playlist
 		"--newline",
 		"--no-colors",
@@ -94,12 +94,12 @@ func (p *Process) Start() {
 	}
 
 	// if user asked to manually override the output path...
-	if !(slices.Contains(params, "-P") || slices.Contains(params, "--paths")) {
+	if !(slices.Contains(p.Params, "-P") || slices.Contains(p.Params, "--paths")) {
-		params = append(params, "-o")
+		p.Params = append(p.Params, "-o")
-		params = append(params, fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s", out.Path, out.Filename))
+		p.Params = append(p.Params, fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s", out.Path, out.Filename))
 	}
 
-	params = append(params, p.Params...)
+	params := append(baseParams, p.Params...)
 
 	// ----------------- main block ----------------- //
 	cmd := exec.Command(config.Instance().DownloaderPath, params...)
@@ -114,8 +114,7 @@ func (p *Process) Start() {
 		panic(err)
 	}
 
-	err = cmd.Start()
+	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
-	if err != nil {
 		p.Logger.Error(
 			"failed to start yt-dlp process",
 			slog.String("err", err.Error()),