Working on building out async functionality

src/app/metar/mod.rs

@@ -1 +1,12 @@
+use super::req::Requests;
 
+#[derive(PartialEq, Eq, Debug)]
+pub struct Metar {
+    pub api: Requests,
+}
+
+impl Default for Metar {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Metar { api: Requests{} }
+    }
+}

src/app/req/mod.rs

@@ -1 +1,28 @@
+use std::error::Error;
 
+use tokio::{io::AsyncReadExt, net::TcpStream};
+
+#[derive(PartialEq, Eq, Debug)]
+pub struct Requests {}
+
+impl Requests {
+    pub async fn make_request(&self, target: String) -> Result<String, Box<dyn Error>> {
+        
+        let tasks = tokio::spawn(async {
+            let mut buf: String = String::from("");
+
+            let mut stream = match TcpStream::connect(target).await {
+                Ok(stream) => stream,
+                Err(err) => return Err(Box::new(err)),
+            };
+            // Buffer to read HTTP request into
+            let _ = stream.read_to_string(&mut buf);
+
+            Ok(buf)
+        });
+
+        let buf = tasks.await??;
+
+        Ok(buf)
+    }
+}

src/app/ui/tabs/metar_tab.rs

@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 use egui::Key;
 
+use crate::app::metar::Metar;
+
 use super::Tab;
 
 #[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub struct MetarTab {
     pub icaos: Vec<String>,
     pub metars: Vec<String>,
+    pub metar: Metar
 }
 
 impl Default for MetarTab {
@@ -13,12 +16,13 @@ impl Default for MetarTab {
         Self {
             icaos: vec!["".to_string()],
             metars: vec![],
+            metar: Metar::default()
         }
     }
 }
 
 impl Tab for MetarTab {
-    fn display_tab(&mut self, ctx: &egui::Context, frame: &egui::Frame) {
+    async fn display_tab(&mut self, ctx: &egui::Context, frame: &egui::Frame) {
         egui::CentralPanel::default().frame(*frame).show(ctx, |ui| {
             // Given Key pressed, place focus on next item
             let new_icao_focus: bool = ui.input(|i| i.key_pressed(Key::Space));
@@ -29,6 +33,7 @@ impl Tab for MetarTab {
 
             if ui.button("Add More").clicked() || new_icao_focus {
                 self.icaos.push("".to_string());
+                self.metar.api.make_request(String::from("google.com"));
             }
         });
     }

src/app/ui/tabs/mod.rs

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ impl TabState {
 
 /// Tab traits that allow tab display on the main application window
 pub trait Tab {
-    fn display_tab(&mut self, ctx: &egui::Context, frame: &egui::Frame);
+    async fn display_tab(&mut self, ctx: &egui::Context, frame: &egui::Frame);
 }
 
 /// Function to draw main set of tabs on the window

src/error.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+use strum::Display;
+
+
+#[derive(Debug, Display)]
+pub enum AvBagError {
+    UIError,
+    RequestNotAvailable
+}
+
+impl std::error::Error for AvBagError {}

src/main.rs

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 #![cfg_attr(not(debug_assertions), windows_subsystem = "windows")] // hide console window on Windows in release
 mod app;
+mod error;
 mod theme;
 use app::App;
 use egui::ViewportBuilder;
 
-fn main() -> Result<(), eframe::Error> {
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
     // Log to stdout (if you run with `RUST_LOG=debug`).
     tracing_subscriber::fmt::init();
 
@@ -18,5 +20,5 @@ fn main() -> Result<(), eframe::Error> {
     let app = Box::new(App::default());
 
     //Start rendering and run the application
-    eframe::run_native(app.name, options, Box::new(|_cc| Ok(app)))
+    Ok(eframe::run_native(app.name, options, Box::new(|_cc| Ok(app)))?)
 }