Refactoring project - Introducing handlers,models and utils- Updating previous hasher and idgen func + formatting

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/utils/blake2b-hasher.go b/utils/blake2b-hasher.go
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+++ b/utils/blake2b-hasher.go
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+package utils
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+
+	"golang.org/x/crypto/blake2b"
+)
+
+func GenerateHash(file io.Reader) (string, error) {
+	//hasher is an instance hash writer provided by the blake2b, nil - no key provided
+	hasher, err := blake2b.New256(nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if _, err := io.Copy(hasher, file); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%x", hasher.Sum(nil)), nil
+}