From 96f62b851343043c93ca5dbd9d2724b5b247a33c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Ableitner <me@nutomic.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 20:53:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add missing file

---
 examples/federation/utils.rs | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 examples/federation/utils.rs

diff --git a/examples/federation/utils.rs b/examples/federation/utils.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..87c421e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/federation/utils.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+use rand::{distributions::Alphanumeric, thread_rng, Rng};
+use url::{ParseError, Url};
+
+/// Just generate random url as object id. In a real project, you probably want to use
+/// an url which contains the database id for easy retrieval (or store the random id in db).
+pub fn generate_object_id(hostname: &str) -> Result<Url, ParseError> {
+    let id: String = thread_rng()
+        .sample_iter(&Alphanumeric)
+        .take(7)
+        .map(char::from)
+        .collect();
+    Url::parse(&format!("http://{}/objects/{}", hostname, id))
+}