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Martin Fischer
5dd28ff04b [enh] introduce Engine class
Previously engines were defined in modules, which where then
stapled with logger, supported_languages & language_aliases
via monkey patching in searx/engines/__init__.py.

Monkey patching is obviously a bad practice since it confuses
humans as well as static type checkers. But there were more problems:

* there were no type hints for the method input and output types

* the request method did not even make a clear distinction between input
  and output (abusing a single "params" dictionary for both)

This commit introduces a new class-based architecture for engines,
in a backwards-compatiable manner: allowing old-style module engines
to be used along witn new-style class-based engines.
2022-01-28 13:23:41 +01:00