refactor(application): introduce application global state

backend/go/transcribe/transcript.go

@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ func audioToWav(src, dst string) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-func Transcript(model whisper.Model, audiopath, language string, threads uint) (schema.Result, error) {
-	res := schema.Result{}
+func Transcript(model whisper.Model, audiopath, language string, threads uint) (schema.TranscriptionResult, error) {
+	res := schema.TranscriptionResult{}
 
 	dir, err := os.MkdirTemp("", "whisper")
 	if err != nil {

backend/go/transcribe/whisper.go

@@ -21,6 +21,6 @@ func (sd *Whisper) Load(opts *pb.ModelOptions) error {
 	return err
 }
 
-func (sd *Whisper) AudioTranscription(opts *pb.TranscriptRequest) (schema.Result, error) {
+func (sd *Whisper) AudioTranscription(opts *pb.TranscriptRequest) (schema.TranscriptionResult, error) {
 	return Transcript(sd.whisper, opts.Dst, opts.Language, uint(opts.Threads))
 }

core/application.go

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package core
+
+import (
+	"github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/core/config"
+	"github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/core/services"
+	"github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pkg/model"
+)
+
+// The purpose of this structure is to hold pointers to all initialized services, to make plumbing easy
+// Perhaps a proper DI system is worth it in the future, but for now keep things simple.
+type Application struct {
+
+	// Application-Level Config
+	ApplicationConfig *config.ApplicationConfig
+	// ApplicationState *ApplicationState
+
+	// Core Low-Level Services
+	BackendConfigLoader *config.BackendConfigLoader
+	ModelLoader         *model.ModelLoader
+
+	// Backend Services
+	// EmbeddingsBackendService      *backend.EmbeddingsBackendService
+	// ImageGenerationBackendService *backend.ImageGenerationBackendService
+	// LLMBackendService             *backend.LLMBackendService
+	// TranscriptionBackendService *backend.TranscriptionBackendService
+	// TextToSpeechBackendService  *backend.TextToSpeechBackendService
+
+	// LocalAI System Services
+	BackendMonitorService *services.BackendMonitorService
+	GalleryService        *services.GalleryService
+	ListModelsService     *services.ListModelsService
+	LocalAIMetricsService *services.LocalAIMetricsService
+	// OpenAIService         *services.OpenAIService
+}
+
+// TODO [NEXT PR?]: Break up ApplicationConfig.
+// Migrate over stuff that is not set via config at all - especially runtime stuff
+type ApplicationState struct {
+}

core/backend/transcript.go

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import (
 	model "github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI/pkg/model"
 )
 
-func ModelTranscription(audio, language string, ml *model.ModelLoader, backendConfig config.BackendConfig, appConfig *config.ApplicationConfig) (*schema.Result, error) {
+func ModelTranscription(audio, language string, ml *model.ModelLoader, backendConfig config.BackendConfig, appConfig *config.ApplicationConfig) (*schema.TranscriptionResult, error) {
 
 	opts := modelOpts(backendConfig, appConfig, []model.Option{
 		model.WithBackendString(model.WhisperBackend),