render: updates for integration with frontends

src/backend/render.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2025 Emma Tebibyte <emma@tebibyte.media>
+ * Copyright (c) 2025–2026 Emma Tebibyte <emma@tebibyte.media>
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
  *
  * This file is part of Mintee.
@@ -26,27 +26,22 @@ use std::{
 
 use tera::{ Context, Tera };
 
+/* TODO: silt needs to export the HTTP error types */
+#[non_exhaustive]
+pub enum PageError {
+	NotFound,
+}
+
 #[non_exhaustive]
 pub enum PageKind {
 	Code,
 	Dashboard,
 	Tickets,
+	Project,
+	RawCode,
+	Repo,
 	User,
-}
+	Invalid(PageError),
-
-impl PageKind {
-	pub fn render_page(&self, ctx: Context) -> Result<String, Box<dyn Error>> {
-		let page_dir = self.to_string();
-		let template = String::from_utf8(Path::new(&page_dir)
-			.to_path_buf()
-			.as_mut_os_string()
-			.as_encoded_bytes()
-			.to_vec()
-		)?;
-
-		let tera = Tera::new(&page_dir)?;
-		Ok(tera.render(&template, &ctx)?)
-	}
 }
 
 impl Display for PageKind {
@@ -57,9 +52,36 @@ impl Display for PageKind {
 			Code => "repo/code.html",
 			Dashboard => "dashboard.html",
 			Tickets => "repo/tickets.html",
+			Repo => "repo/code.html",
 			User => "user.html",
+			_ => "",
 		};
 
 		write!(f, "./assets/templates/{}", path)
 	}
 }
+
+pub struct Page {
+	kind: PageKind,
+	path: String,
+	branch: Option<String>,
+	commit: Option<String>,
+	tag: Option<String>,
+}
+
+/*
+impl Page {
+	pub fn render(&self) -> Result<String, Box<dyn Error>> {
+		let template_dir = self.kind.to_string();
+		let template = String::from_utf8(Path::new(&template_dir)
+			.to_path_buf()
+			.as_mut_os_string()
+			.as_encoded_bytes()
+			.to_vec()
+		)?;
+
+		let tera = Tera::new(&page_dir)?;
+		Ok(tera.render(&template, &ctx)?)
+	}
+}
+*/

src/bin/test_render.rs

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ use std::{
 };
 
 use gix::open;
-use tera::{ Context, Tera };
+use tera::Tera;
 
 use mintee::backend::git::repo_to_context;
 
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
 		let tera = Tera::new(templates.as_str())?;
 		let ctx = repo_to_context(open(current_dir()?)?)?;
 
-		println!("{}", tera.render("code.html", &ctx)?);
+		println!("{}", tera.render("repo.html", &ctx)?);
 
 		Ok(())
 	} else {