package controllers
import play.api._
import play.api.mvc._
import play.api.data._
import play.api.data.Forms._
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 ans 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: Option[Cookie]) : Int =
c.map(_.value.split("/")) match {
case Some(Array(s, h))
if (s.forall(_.isDigit) && mk_hash(s) == h) => s.toInt
case _ => 0
}
def mk_cookie(i: Int) : Cookie = {
val s = i.toString
Cookie("visits", s + "/" + mk_hash(s))
}
def index = Action { request =>
val visits_cookie = request.cookies.get("visits")
val visits = gt_cookie(visits_cookie)
val msg1 = "You are a valued customer who has visited this site %d times."
val msg2 = "You have visited this site %d times."
val msg =
if (visits >= 10) msg1.format(visits) else msg2.format(visits)
Ok(msg).as(HTML).withCookies(mk_cookie(visits + 1))
}
}