Moved to a more genral implementation for the response format.

src/main.rs

@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ async fn settings_query_middleware<B>(
 			let ua = user_agent.as_str();
 			for tua in config.template.text_user_agents {
 				if ua.starts_with(&tua) {
-					format = Some(ResponseFormat::TextPlain);
+					format = Some(ResponseFormat::Text);
 					break;
 				}
 			}
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ async fn settings_query_middleware<B>(
 	}
 	// Add the request settings extension
 	req.extensions_mut().insert(QuerySettings{
-		format: format.unwrap_or(ResponseFormat::TextHtml),
+		format: format.unwrap_or(ResponseFormat::Html),
 		lang: query.lang.unwrap_or("en".to_string()),
 		available_dns_resolvers: derived_config.dns_resolver_selectables,
 		dns_resolver_id: dns_resolver_id,

src/mycelium/format.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+
+use serde::Deserialize;
+use serde::Serialize;
+
+/// Defines how the response should be rendered.
+pub enum MycFormatFamily {
+	/// When rendering the templating engine will be invoked
+	Template,
+	/// When rendering the [View](./trait.View.html)
+	/// is asked to generate an API response.
+	API,
+}
+
+/// Implement on a type that is able to describe a response format.
+/// 
+/// It is best implemented on an enum.
+pub trait MycFormat: ToString+Clone+Default {
+
+	// Return the format family this 
+	fn get_family(&self) -> MycFormatFamily {
+		match self.get_name().as_str() {
+			"json" => MycFormatFamily::API,
+			_ => MycFormatFamily::Template,
+		}
+	}
+
+	/// Returns the file extnsion for the format.
+	///
+	/// Used for deriving the path for the template name.
+	///
+	/// Defaults to `.{self.get_name()}`
+	/// with the exception of the name being `text`
+	/// then it defaults to `.txt`.
+	fn get_file_extension(&self) -> String {
+		match self.get_name().as_str() {
+			"text" => ".txt".to_string(),
+			_ => ".".to_owned()+&self.get_name(),
+		}
+	}
+
+	/// Returns the name of the format,
+	/// by default taken from the ToString implementation.
+	fn get_name(&self) -> String {
+		self.to_string()
+	}
+
+	/// Allows adding extra mimetypes quickly for prototyping
+	///
+	/// Implementing get_mime_type() properly is recommended
+	/// for production use. 
+	fn get_less_well_known_mimetype(&self) -> Option<&'static str> {
+		None
+	}
+
+	/// Returns a textual representation of the Mimetype.
+	///
+	/// It is recommended to implement this when in production use.
+	///
+	/// For prototyping the default implementation makes assumptions
+	/// based on the output of get_name(), falling back
+	/// to get_less_well_known_mimetype() and the "application/octet-stream" type.
+	///
+	/// The default implementation knows the following associations:
+	/// * `text`: `text/plain`
+	/// * `html`: `text/html`
+	/// * `json`: `application/json`
+	/// * `xml`: `application/xml`
+	/// * `rss`: `application/rss+xml`
+	/// * `atom`: `application/atom+xml`
+	///
+	/// *Implementation Note:* It may be possible that two different views
+	/// have the same MimeType (maybe two json representations for different consumers).
+	/// 
+	fn get_mime_type(&self) -> &'static str {
+		match self.get_name().as_str() {
+			"text" => "text/plain",
+			"html" => "text/html",
+			"json" => "application/json",
+			"xml" => "application/xml",
+			"rss" => "application/rss+xml",
+			"atom" => "application/atom+xml",
+			_ =>
+				self.get_less_well_known_mimetype()
+					.unwrap_or_else(||"application/octet-stream"),
+		}
+	}
+
+	/// Constructs a view from its name.
+	fn from_name(name: &str) -> Option<Self>;
+}
+
+// Some Sample implementations
+
+#[derive(Clone,Serialize,Deserialize,Default)]
+#[serde(rename_all="lowercase")]
+pub enum HtmlTextJsonFormat {
+	#[default]
+	Html,
+	Text,
+	Json,
+}
+
+impl ToString for HtmlTextJsonFormat {
+	fn to_string(&self) -> String {
+		match self {
+			Self::Html => "html",
+			Self::Text => "text",
+			Self::Json => "json",
+		}.to_owned()
+	}
+}
+
+
+impl MycFormat for HtmlTextJsonFormat {
+
+	//TODO: implement other methods to make it more performant
+	
+	fn from_name(name: &str) -> Option<Self> {
+		match name {
+			"html" => Some(Self::Html),
+			"text" => Some(Self::Text),
+			"json" => Some(Self::Json),
+			_ => None,
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+

src/mycelium/mod.rs

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+mod format;
 mod view;
 
+pub use self::format::HtmlTextJsonFormat;
+pub use self::format::MycFormat;
+pub use self::format::MycFormatFamily;
 pub use self::view::MycView;

src/settings.rs

@@ -1,38 +1,11 @@
 use serde::{Deserialize,Serialize};
 
 use std::sync::Arc;
+use crate::mycelium::HtmlTextJsonFormat;
 
 /* Response format */
 
-#[derive(Deserialize, Serialize, Clone, Copy)]
+pub type ResponseFormat = HtmlTextJsonFormat;
-pub enum ResponseFormat {
-	#[serde(rename="text/plain", alias="text")]
-	TextPlain,
-	#[serde(rename="text/html", alias="html")]
-	TextHtml,
-	#[serde(rename="application/json", alias="json")]
-	ApplicationJson,
-}
-
-impl ToString for ResponseFormat {
-	fn to_string(&self) -> String {
-		match self {
-			ResponseFormat::TextPlain => "text/plain",
-			ResponseFormat::TextHtml => "text/html",
-			ResponseFormat::ApplicationJson => "application/json",
-		}.to_string()
-	}
-}
-
-impl ResponseFormat {
-	pub fn to_file_extension(&self) -> String {
-		match self {
-			ResponseFormat::TextPlain => ".txt",
-			ResponseFormat::TextHtml => ".html",
-			ResponseFormat::ApplicationJson => ".json",
-		}.to_string()
-	}
-}
 
 /* Query and Template Settings */
 

src/templating_engine.rs

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ use toml::Table;
 
 use crate::view::View;
 use crate::mycelium::MycView;
+use crate::mycelium::MycFormat;
+use crate::mycelium::MycFormatFamily;
 use crate::settings::QuerySettings;
 use crate::settings::ResponseFormat;
 
@@ -36,8 +38,8 @@ impl Engine {
 		settings: &QuerySettings,
 		view: &View,
 	) -> Response {
-		let mut response = match settings.format {
+		let mut response = match settings.format.get_family() {
-			ResponseFormat::TextHtml | ResponseFormat::TextPlain => {
+			MycFormatFamily::Template => {
 				let template_name = view.get_template_name();
 
 				let mut context = tera::Context::new();
@@ -50,10 +52,10 @@ impl Engine {
 				context.insert("data", &view);
 				context.insert("extra", &self.template_config);
 
-				match self.tera.render(&(template_name.clone()+&settings.format.to_file_extension()), &context) {
+				match self.tera.render(&(template_name.clone()+&settings.format.get_file_extension()), &context) {
 					Ok(text) =>
 						match settings.format {
-							ResponseFormat::TextHtml => Html(text).into_response(),
+							ResponseFormat::Html => Html(text).into_response(),
 							_ => text.into_response(),
 						}
 					Err(e) => {
@@ -65,8 +67,7 @@ impl Engine {
 					}
 				}
 			}
-			//TODO: Plain Text should have its own matcher
+			MycFormatFamily::API => {
-			ResponseFormat::ApplicationJson => {
 				match view {
 					View::Dig{result, ..} => {
 						Json(result).into_response()