utils/strings.go

package utils

import (
	"crypto/sha256"
	"fmt"
	"strings"
)

// BuildWhitelistForStringSanitisation transfroms a slice of whitelisted substrings into a hashtable
func BuildWhitelistForStringSanitisation(wl []string) map[string]string {
	whitelist := map[string]string{}

	for _, c := range wl {
		whitelist[c] = c
	}

	return whitelist

}

// FirstCharacterToUppercase converts the first character of a string to uppercase
func FirstCharacterToUppercase(s string) string {
	if len(s) == 0 {
		return s
	}

	if len(s) == 1 {
		return strings.ToUpper(s)
	}

	return strings.ToUpper(s[:1]) + strings.ToLower(s[1:])
}

// GetSHA256SumOfString returns the sha256 sum of s
func GetSHA256SumOfString(s string) string {
	h := sha256.New()
	h.Write([]byte(s))
	return fmt.Sprintf("%x", h.Sum(nil))
}

// RemoveDoubledStrings removes all duplicate occurrences of target in s
func RemoveDoubledStrings(s string, target string) string {
	doubledTarget := fmt.Sprintf("%s%s", target, target)

	if !strings.Contains(s, doubledTarget) {
		return s
	}

	return RemoveDoubledStrings(
		strings.Replace(s, doubledTarget, target, -1),
		target,
	)
}

// SanitizeStringWithWhitelist cleans s by all substrings which do not occur in whitelist
func SanitizeStringWithWhitelist(s string, whitelist map[string]string) string {
	sanitizedString := ""

	for _, char := range s {
		whitelistedChar, charIsWhitelisted := whitelist[string(char)]
		if charIsWhitelisted {
			sanitizedString = sanitizedString + whitelistedChar
		}
	}

	return sanitizedString
}