package controllers
import play.api.mvc._
import java.security.MessageDigest
/*
* Application sets a cookie in plain ASCII on the
* clients browser recording the visits of a page.
*
* The cookie data is hashed and stored in the format:
*
* visits_counter/hashed_value
*/
object Application extends Controller {
//hash functions: SHA-1, SHA-256, etc
def mk_hash(s: String) : String = {
val hash_fun = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1")
hash_fun.digest(s.getBytes).map{ "%02x".format(_) }.mkString
}
//extracting from the string .../... the visits
//value and hash
def gt_cookie(c: Cookie) : Int = c.value.split("/") match {
case Array(s, h) if (s.forall(_.isDigit) && mk_hash(s) == h) => s.toInt
case _ => 0
}
def mk_cookie(i: Int) : Cookie = {
val hash = mk_hash(i.toString)
Cookie("visits", s"$i/$hash")
}
def index = Action { request =>
val visits_cookie = request.cookies.get("visits")
val visits = visits_cookie.map(gt_cookie).getOrElse(0)
val msg =
if (visits >= 10)
s"You are a valued customer who has visited this site $visits times."
else s"You have visited this site $visits times."
Ok(msg).withCookies(mk_cookie(visits + 1))
}
}