Made healthcheck async and repeating and action at config-specified interval

validator/src/validator/health_check/mod.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 use crate::validator::config;
-use log::debug;
+use log::{debug, trace};
 use std::time::Duration;
 
 pub(crate) struct HealthChecker {
@@ -15,10 +15,14 @@ impl HealthChecker {
         }
     }
 
-    pub fn run(self) {
+    pub async fn run(self) {
         debug!(
             "healthcheck run. will use directory at: {:?} and run every {:?}",
             self.directory_server, self.interval,
-        )
+        );
+        loop {
+            tokio::time::delay_for(self.interval).await;
+            trace!("going to perform a healthcheck!");
+        }
     }
 }

validator/src/validator/mod.rs

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 use crate::validator::config::Config;
 use crate::validator::health_check::HealthChecker;
 use log::debug;
+use tokio::runtime::Runtime;
 
 pub mod config;
 mod health_check;
@@ -20,6 +21,11 @@ impl Validator {
 
     pub fn start(self) {
         debug!("validator run");
-        self.heath_check.run()
+
+        let mut rt = Runtime::new().unwrap();
+
+        let health_check_future = self.heath_check.run();
+
+        rt.block_on(health_check_future);
     }
 }