new files for crawler and model

src-tauri/src/impl/folder_crawler.rs

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+use models::folder_data::FolderData;
+use std::fs;
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+
+fn crawl(path: PathBuf) -> FolderData {
+
+    /*initialize mutable variables for tracking information about the folder.*/
+    let mut size = 0; // Total size of all the files and subfolders in the folder.
+    let mut subfolder_count = 0; // Total number of subfolders in the folder.
+    let mut file_count = 0; // Total number of files in the folder.
+    let mut children = Vec::new(); // Vector to store the child folder data
+
+    if let Ok(entries) = fs::read_dir(&path) {
+
+    }
+}

src-tauri/src/models/folder_data.rs

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+use serde::Serialize;
+
+
+#[derive(Serialize)]
+struct FolderData {
+    name: String,
+    path: String,
+    #[serde(rename = "type")]
+    folder_type: String, // Always "folder" in this case
+    size: u64,
+    subfolders: usize,
+    children: Vec<FolderData>,
+}