Threads store their own qdb. It gets updated when new questions are added to reduce message sizes between threads

src/utils/actions.ts

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ const dataLockFile = './data/lockData'
 
 import logger from '../utils/logger'
 import { createQuestion } from '../utils/classes'
-import { doALongTask } from './workerPool'
+import { doALongTask  } from './workerPool'
 import idStats from '../utils/ids'
 import utils from '../utils/utils'
 import { SearchResult, addQuestion, getSubjNameWithoutYear } from './classes'
@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ function processIncomingRequestUsingDb(
           doALongTask({
             type: 'work',
             data: {
+              searchIn: [qdb.index],
               qdb: qdb.data,
               question: currentQuestion,
               subjName: recievedData.subj,
@@ -201,6 +202,8 @@ function processIncomingRequestUsingDb(
                 )
                 logger.DebugLog(currentQuestion, 'actions', 3)
                 addQuestion(qdb.data, sName, currentQuestion)
+                // TODO: check if it really adds it, not only just some clone (questionDbs in api.ts
+                // modifies too)
               })
 
               currWrites++
@@ -261,7 +264,7 @@ function processIncomingRequestUsingDb(
 }
 
 export function loadJSON(dataFiles: Array<DataFile>): Array<QuestionDb> {
-  return dataFiles.reduce((acc, dataFile) => {
+  return dataFiles.reduce((acc, dataFile, index) => {
     if (!utils.FileExists(dataFile.path)) {
       utils.WriteFile(JSON.stringify([]), dataFile.path)
     }
@@ -269,6 +272,7 @@ export function loadJSON(dataFiles: Array<DataFile>): Array<QuestionDb> {
     try {
       acc.push({
         ...dataFile,
+        index: index,
         data: JSON.parse(utils.ReadFile(dataFile.path)),
       })
     } catch (err) {
@@ -302,3 +306,12 @@ export function backupData(questionDbs: Array<QuestionDb>): void {
     }
   })
 }
+
+export function getQuestionDbsWithoutFunct(
+  questionDbs: Array<QuestionDb> // FIXME: type for dis
+): Array<any> {
+  return questionDbs.map((qdb) => {
+    const { shouldSave, ...res } = qdb // eslint-disable-line
+    return res
+  })
+}