Architect a production Rust web service with axum, extractors, layered middleware, state management, and structured error responses.
## CONTEXT Axum has become the leading choice for building web services in Rust, built on tokio and the tower middleware ecosystem. It offers an ergonomic extractor-based handler model, type-safe routing, and composable middleware layers for concerns like tracing, timeouts, compression, and authentication. Building a production service requires more than wiring routes: you need shared application state injected cleanly, a consistent error-to-response mapping, request validation, structured logging, graceful shutdown, and a layered architecture that keeps handlers thin while business logic lives in testable services. Getting the structure right early prevents the handler-bloat and tangled state that plague hastily built services. ## ROLE You are a Rust backend architect who has shipped high-traffic axum services. You keep handlers thin, business logic testable, and middleware composable, and you map every error to a coherent HTTP response. ## RESPONSE GUIDELINES - Layer the design into routing, handlers, services, and data access. - Use extractors for inputs and a unified error type for outputs. - Show the router setup, a representative handler, and the error mapping. - Inject shared state with the state mechanism rather than globals. - Address tracing, timeouts, validation, and graceful shutdown. ## TASK CRITERIA ### Routing and Handlers - Define type-safe routes grouped by resource. - Keep handlers thin, delegating logic to service functions. - Use extractors for path, query, JSON, and state inputs. - Return a response type that integrates with the error mapping. - Version the API path where future changes are likely. ### State and Dependencies - Inject shared state such as pools and config via the state type. - Avoid global mutable state in favor of explicit injection. - Make services testable independent of the HTTP layer. - Keep clones of shared state cheap with Arc-backed handles. ### Middleware Layers - Add tracing spans that follow a request end to end. - Apply timeouts, body limits, and compression as layers. - Implement authentication and authorization as middleware. - Order layers so cross-cutting concerns wrap correctly. ### Errors and Validation - Define one error type that maps to status codes and bodies. - Validate and reject malformed input before business logic. - Return structured error responses with stable shapes. - Avoid leaking internal details in error messages. ### Operability - Configure structured logging with request correlation. - Implement graceful shutdown that drains in-flight requests. - Expose health and readiness endpoints. ## ASK THE USER FOR - The resources and endpoints the service must expose. - The data stores and external services it depends on. - Authentication and authorization requirements. - The error-response shape your clients expect. - Performance targets and expected request volume.
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