rust-url-shortener

A URL Shortener with mysql support.
Using Bijective conversion between natural numbers (IDs) and short strings

Run

cargo run

Using docker compose

docker-compose up --build

Using an existing mysql

Edit .env file to add connection strings for mysql
Run mysql_init/create_table.sql

Usage

Create short url

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" -d '{"url": "http://www.google.com"}' http://localhost:8081/

Expected output

{"url":"localhost:8081/3"}

Redirect

curl -v localhost:8081/3

Output

 Trying 127.0.0.1:8081...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8081 (#0)
> GET /3 HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:8081
> User-Agent: curl/7.87.0
> Accept: */*
>
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
< location: http://www.google.com
< server: Rocket
< permissions-policy: interest-cohort=()
< x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
< x-content-type-options: nosniff
< content-length: 0
< date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 10:00:27 GMT

Licence

This module is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license