devdocs/todo.txt

@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ REALLY MAKING MORE PROGRESS WHEN CLIENT DEV DRIVES BACKEND DEV, STICK TO THAT!!
 DO CLIENT STUFF NOW COME BACK TO THIS STUFF LATER
 
 ###*** BEFORE NEXT UPDATE TO DEVOPS SERVER:::::::
-
+TODO: 2019-06-07 10:47:57.8894|WARN|Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cors.Infrastructure.CorsService|The CORS protocol does not allow specifying a wildcard (any) origin and credentials at the same time. Configure the policy by listing individual origins if credentials needs to be supported.
+2
 
 TODO: NEEDS A THINK, SOME CHANGES REQUIRE DB ERASURE BEFORE STARTUP
 	- Make it fucking easier to test deploy and erase db and fetch key and all that shit

server/AyaNova/biz/WidgetBiz.cs

@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.Biz
 
             Widget outObj = new Widget();
             CopyObject.Copy(dbObj, outObj);
+            outObj.Name = outObj.Name;
 
             //Test get serial id visible id number from generator
             outObj.Serial = ServerBootConfig.WIDGET_SERIAL.GetNext();

server/AyaNova/util/DateUtil.cs

@@ -63,6 +63,22 @@ namespace AyaNova.Util
         }
 
 
+         /// <summary>
+        /// Returns current date/time in sortable format
+         ///(used for duplicate names by stringUtil and others)       
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public static string SortableShortCurrentDateTimeValue
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                return DateTime.Now.ToString("s");
+                //Was going to use MaxValue but apparently that varies depending on culture
+                // and Postgres has issues with year 1 as it interprets as year 2001        
+                // so to be on safe side just defining one for all usage
+            }
+        }
+
       
 
 

server/AyaNova/util/StringUtil.cs

@@ -50,14 +50,14 @@ namespace AyaNova.Util
         /// <param name="sIP"></param>
         /// <returns></returns>
         public static string MaskIPAddress(string sIP)
-        { 
+        {
             //My test station ip address!?
             //"::ffff:127.0.0.1"
             //weird dual format, new method that covers both v4 and v4 inside v6 format
-            if(sIP.Contains("."))
+            if (sIP.Contains("."))
             {
                 //new algorithm, replace anything after last period with an xxx
-                var ret=sIP.Substring(0,sIP.LastIndexOf("."))+".xxx";
+                var ret = sIP.Substring(0, sIP.LastIndexOf(".")) + ".xxx";
                 return ret;
 
             }
@@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ namespace AyaNova.Util
 
             //8 groups IPV6 Address format
             if (sIP.Contains(":"))
-            {               
-               
-                sIP=sIP.Replace("::",":0:");//rehydrate "compressed" addresses
+            {
+
+                sIP = sIP.Replace("::", ":0:");//rehydrate "compressed" addresses
                 var segs = sIP.Split(':');
                 if (segs.Length < 7)
                     return "UNRECOGNIZED V6 IP ADDRESS FORMAT";
@@ -90,6 +90,31 @@ namespace AyaNova.Util
         }
 
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Make a unique but duplicate object name of desired length
+        ///        (Used by Duplicate object function)
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="s"></param>
+        /// <param name="maxLength"></param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public static string NameUniquify(string s, int maxLength)
+        {
+            //Unique string
+            string unique = " - " + DateUtil.SortableShortCurrentDateTimeValue;
+            string ret = s + unique;
+            var diff = maxLength - ret.Length;
+            if (diff < 0)
+            {
+                if (unique.Length >= maxLength)
+                {
+                    throw new System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException("StringUtil::nameUniquify - maxlength> unique value, source field too short for this function?");
+                }
+                ret = s.Substring(0, Math.Abs(diff)) + unique;
+            }
+          
+            return ret;
+        }
+
 
     }//eoc