Create utils.rs for Utilities

src/utils.rs

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+// Post flair with text, background color and foreground color
+pub struct Flair(pub String, pub String, pub String);
+
+// Post containing content, metadata and media
+pub struct Post {
+	pub title: String,
+	pub community: String,
+	pub body: String,
+	pub author: String,
+	pub url: String,
+	pub score: String,
+	pub media: String,
+	pub time: String,
+	pub flair: Flair,
+}
+
+#[allow(dead_code)]
+// Comment with content, post, score and data/time that it was posted
+pub struct Comment {
+	pub body: String,
+	pub author: String,
+	pub score: String,
+	pub time: String,
+}
+
+#[allow(dead_code)]
+// User struct containing metadata about user
+pub struct User {
+	pub name: String,
+	pub icon: String,
+	pub karma: i64,
+	pub banner: String,
+	pub description: String,
+}
+
+#[allow(dead_code)]
+// Subreddit struct containing metadata about community
+pub struct Subreddit {
+	pub name: String,
+	pub title: String,
+	pub description: String,
+	pub icon: String,
+}
+
+// val() function used to parse JSON from Reddit APIs
+pub async fn val(j: &serde_json::Value, k: &str) -> String {
+	String::from(j["data"][k].as_str().unwrap_or(""))
+}
+
+#[allow(dead_code)]
+// nested_val() function used to parse JSON from Reddit APIs
+pub async fn nested_val(j: &serde_json::Value, n: &str, k: &str) -> String {
+	String::from(j["data"][n][k].as_str().unwrap())
+}