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Rust Web Development with Rocket

You're reading from   Rust Web Development with Rocket A practical guide to starting your journey in Rust web development using the Rocket framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800561304
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Karuna Murti Karuna Murti
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: An Introduction to the Rust Programming Language and the Rocket Web Framework
2. Chapter 1: Introducing the Rust Language FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Building Our First Rocket Web Application 4. Chapter 3: Rocket Requests and Responses 5. Chapter 4: Building, Igniting, and Launching Rocket 6. Chapter 5: Designing a User-Generated Application 7. Part 2: An In-Depth Look at Rocket Web Application Development
8. Chapter 6: Implementing User CRUD 9. Chapter 7: Handling Errors in Rust and Rocket 10. Chapter 8: Serving Static Assets and Templates 11. Chapter 9: Displaying Users' Post 12. Chapter 10: Uploading and Processing Posts 13. Chapter 11: Securing and Adding an API and JSON 14. Part 3: Finishing the Rust Web Application Development
15. Chapter 12: Testing Your Application 16. Chapter 13: Launching a Rocket Application 17. Chapter 14: Building a Full Stack Application 18. Chapter 15: Improving the Rocket Application 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Uploading a video post and process using a worker

In this section, we are going to process an uploaded video. Processing an uploaded video is not a trivial task as it can take a lot of time, so even with the async programming technique, the generated response will take a lot of time.

Another technique in programming to solve a long processing time is using message passing. We are going to create another thread to process the video. When a user uploads a video, we will do the following:

  1. Generate a path to the temporary file.
  2. Mark the path as unprocessed.
  3. Store the path to the file in the database.
  4. Send a message from the main Rocket thread into the thread for processing the video.
  5. Return the response for uploading the video.

If the thread to process the video receives a message, it will find the data from the database, process the file, and mark the post as finished.

If the user requests the posts list or posts while it's still being processed...

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