April: 07

Notes

Prepare the side account for the IRS bill.

2024

Rust

These are the notes from Remy regarding the first file of the kbve package! I am going to place them here and then move them into the library.

For Password character checking, Remy suggested this:

  match password.chars().count() {
    // Check if the password is long enough (e.g., at least 8 characters)
    0..=7 => return Err("Password is too short"),
 
    // Check if the password is not too long (e.g., no more than 255 characters)
    256..=usize::MAX => return Err("Password is too long"),

    _ => ()     
  }

Here is an example of the fold method for checking the characters:

  let conditions = password.chars().fold([false; 4], |mut acc, c| {
    let acc1 = [char::is_uppercase, char::is_lowercase, |c: char| c.is_digit(10), |c: char| !c.is_alphanumeric()].map(|f| f(c));
    (0..4).for_each(|i| acc[i] |= acc1[i]);
    acc
  });

  if conditions.into_iter().fold(false, |acc, cond| (acc|!cond)) {
        return Err(
            "Password must include uppercase, lowercase, digits, and special characters"
        );
    }

If we expand the acc1, then we can do this instead:

let conditions = password.chars().fold([false; 4], |mut acc, c| {
    let acc1 = [char::is_uppercase, char::is_lowercase, |c: char| c.is_digit(10), |c: char| !c.is_alphanumeric()].map(|f| f(c));
    (0..acc1.len()).for_each(|i| acc[i] |= acc1[i]);
    acc
  });

  if conditions.into_iter().fold(false, |acc, cond| (acc|!cond)) {
        return Err(
            "Password must include uppercase, lowercase, digits, and special characters"
        );
    }

Here is a better way of writing the sanitize_path function:

pub fn sanitize_path(input: &str) -> String {
    let mut sanitized: String = input
        .chars()
        .filter(|c| matches!(c, 'a'..='z'|'A'..='Z'|'/'|'?'|'@'|'%'|'$'|'#') )
        .collect();

    if sanitized.chars().count() > 255 {
        sanitized.truncate(255);
    }

    sanitized
}

Next, we have a better way to do the ulid string to bytes:

pub fn convert_ulid_string_to_bytes(ulid_str: &str) -> Result<Vec<u8>, String> {
  Ulid::from_str(ulid_str)
    .map(|o| ulid.to_bytes().to_vec())
    .map_err(|_| "Invalid ULID string".to_string())
}

And vice versa, for bytes to string:

pub fn convert_ulid_bytes_to_string(ulid_bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<String, String> {
    let 16 = ulid_bytes.len() else {
        return Err("Invalid ULID bytes length".to_string());
    };

    // Convert the slice to an array
    let ulid_array_ref: [u8; 16] = ulid_bytes.try_into().map_err(|_|"Failed to convert slice to array")?;

    // Convert the Ulid to a string
    Ok(Ulid::from_bytes(ulid_array_ref).to_string())
}

We could clean up the cors_service() function as well:

pub fn cors_service() -> CorsLayer {
    let orgins = [
        "https://herbmail.com",
        "https://kbve.com",
        "https://discord.sh",
        "https://hoppscotch.io",
        "http://localhost:3000",
        "http://localhost:4321",
        "https://kbve.itch.io",
        "https://html-classic.itch.zone",
    ].map(|url| url.parse::<HeaderValue>().unwrap());

    CorsLayer::new()
        .allow_origin(orgins)
        .allow_methods([Method::PUT, Method::GET, Method::DELETE, Method::POST])
        .allow_credentials(true)
        .allow_headers([
            AUTHORIZATION,
            ACCEPT,
            CONTENT_TYPE,
            HeaderName::from_static("x-kbve-shieldwall"),
            HeaderName::from_static("x-kbve-api"),
        ])
}

Last two were the health check, which would look like this:

pub async fn health_check(Extension(pool): Extension<Arc<Pool>>) -> Result<
    Json<WizardResponse>,
    StatusCode
> {
    let connection_result = task::spawn_blocking(move || { pool.get() }).await.flatten();

    match connection_result {
        Ok(_conn) => {
            Ok(
                Json(WizardResponse {
                    data: serde_json::json!({"status": "online"}),
                    message: serde_json::json!({"health": "ok"}),
                })
            )
        }
        _ => { Err(StatusCode::SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE) }
    }
}

and finally the speed_test, which would look like this:

pub async fn speed_test(Extension(pool): Extension<Arc<Pool>>) -> Result<
    Json<WizardResponse>,
    StatusCode
> {
    let start_time = Instant::now();

    // Use `block_in_place` or `spawn_blocking` for the blocking database operation
    let query_result = task::block_in_place(|| {
        let mut conn = pool.get().map_err(|_| StatusCode::SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE)?;

        // Execute a simple query
        diesel
            ::sql_query("SELECT 1")
            .execute(&mut conn)
            .map_err(|_| StatusCode::SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE)
    });

  query_result?;

  let elapsed_time = start_time.elapsed().as_millis() as u64;
    Ok(
        Json(WizardResponse {
            data: serde_json::json!({"status": "time"}),
            message: serde_json::json!({"time": elapsed_time.to_string()}),
        })
    )
}

Bonus function , getting the environmental variable function:

fn get_env_var(name: &str) -> Result<String, String> {
    let file_path = env::var(name);
    if let Ok(_) = &file_path {
      return file_path;
    };

    let Ok(file_path) = env::var(format!("{}_FILE", name)) else {
      return Err(format!(
        "Environment variable {} or {}_FILE must be set",
        name, name
      ));
    };

    fs::read_to_string(file_path).map_err(|err| format!("Error reading file for {}: {}", name, err))