ticket #93 attempt 1

devplacepy/main.py

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ from fastapi import FastAPI, Request
 from fastapi.responses import HTMLResponse, RedirectResponse
 from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles
 from fastapi.exceptions import RequestValidationError
-from starlette.middleware.gzip import GZipMiddleware
 from devplacepy.config import (
     STATIC_DIR,
     STATIC_VERSION,
@@ -610,10 +609,6 @@ async def response_timing(request: Request, call_next):
     response.headers["X-Response-Time"] = f"{(time.perf_counter() - start) * 1000:.1f}ms"
     return response
 
-
-app.add_middleware(GZipMiddleware, minimum_size=512, compresslevel=5)
-
-
 _home_cache = TTLCache(ttl=int(os.environ.get("DEVPLACE_HOME_CACHE_TTL", "60")), max_size=4)
 
 

devplacepy/services/jobs/deepsearch/crawl.py

@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ from .pdf import MAX_PDF_BYTES, extract_pdf_text, is_pdf
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-_pw_lock = asyncio.Lock()
-
 RSEARCH_URL = "https://rsearch.app.molodetz.nl"
 RSEARCH_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 45.0
 FETCH_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 20.0
@@ -174,7 +172,13 @@ async def _render_with_playwright(
 ) -> tuple[str, str, int, list[tuple[str, str]]]:
     from playwright.async_api import async_playwright
 
-    async def _render(browser) -> tuple[str, str, int, list[tuple[str, str]]]:
+    own_browser = browser is None
+    if own_browser:
+        pw = await async_playwright().__aenter__()
+        browser = await pw.chromium.launch(
+            headless=True, args=["--no-sandbox", "--disable-dev-shm-usage"]
+        )
+    try:
         context = await browser.new_context(user_agent=USER_AGENT)
         page = await context.new_page()
         response = await page.goto(url, wait_until="load", timeout=30000)
@@ -185,18 +189,10 @@ async def _render_with_playwright(
         await context.close()
         extracted = extract_html(content, base_url=url)
         return extracted.title, extracted.text, status, extracted.links
-
-    if browser is None:
-        async with async_playwright() as pw:
-            browser = await pw.chromium.launch(
-                headless=True, args=["--no-sandbox", "--disable-dev-shm-usage"]
-            )
-            try:
-                return await _render(browser)
     finally:
+        if own_browser:
             await browser.close()
-    else:
+            await pw.__aexit__(None, None, None)
-        return await _render(browser)
 
 
 async def fetch_page(url: str, depth: int, browser=None) -> CrawledPage | None:
@@ -246,12 +242,8 @@ async def fetch_page(url: str, depth: int, browser=None) -> CrawledPage | None:
         except (LookupError, ValueError) as exc:
             logger.info("deepsearch decode failed for %s: %s", url, exc)
     if len(text) < MIN_PAGE_CHARS:
-        async with _pw_lock:
         try:
             r_title, r_text, r_status, r_links = await _render_with_playwright(url, browser)
-            except Exception as exc:
-                logger.info("deepsearch render failed for %s: %s", url, exc)
-                r_title, r_text, r_status, r_links = "", "", 0, []
             if len(r_text) > len(text):
                 title, text, status, source, links = (
                     r_title or title,
@@ -260,6 +252,8 @@ async def fetch_page(url: str, depth: int, browser=None) -> CrawledPage | None:
                     "playwright",
                     r_links,
                 )
+        except Exception as exc:
+            logger.info("deepsearch render failed for %s: %s", url, exc)
     if len(text) < MIN_PAGE_CHARS:
         return None
     return CrawledPage(
@@ -302,9 +296,10 @@ async def crawl(
     total = min(len(level_candidates), max_pages)
     cancelled = False
 
+    pw = None
     browser = None
-    async with async_playwright() as pw:
     try:
+        pw = await async_playwright().__aenter__()
         browser = await pw.chromium.launch(
             headless=True, args=["--no-sandbox", "--disable-dev-shm-usage"]
         )
@@ -397,4 +392,6 @@ async def crawl(
     finally:
         if browser is not None:
             await browser.close()
+        if pw is not None:
+            await pw.__aexit__(None, None, None)
     return outcome

devplacepy/templates/docs/architecture-backend.html

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ How a request flows through middleware to a router, how the database layer is bu
 
 ## Middleware
 
-Seven HTTP middlewares run as a stack around every request, listed outermost first. `response_timing` is the outermost, `refresh_db_snapshot` the innermost, and a `GZipMiddleware` (responses over 512 bytes) wraps the whole stack on top:
+Six HTTP middlewares run as a stack around every request, listed outermost first. `response_timing` is the outermost and `refresh_db_snapshot` the innermost. Compression is handled by nginx in production; the Python application does not compress responses itself.
 
 | Middleware (outermost first) | Responsibility |
 |------------|----------------|

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ version = "1.0.0"
 description = "DevPlace - The Developer Social Network"
 requires-python = ">=3.12"
 dependencies = [
-    "fastapi",
+    "fastapi>=0.110.0",
+    "starlette>=0.37.0",
     "uvicorn[standard]",
     "jinja2",
     "python-multipart",