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+# datatrash
+
+A file and text uploading service with configurable time limit
+
+![Application screenshot](./screenshot.png)
+
+## compiling
+
+Compiling is a little strange.
+The SQL-statements are checked for correctness at compile-time, unfortunately this means that the
+database needs to be running at compile-time too.
+
+To get set up:
+
+- Start a postgresql somewhere
+- Set its connection url in the `.env` file
+- Run the `init-db.sql` script in the database (`cat init-db.sql | psql`)
+- Build the project `cargo build --release`
+
+## running & config
+
+At runtime the environment variable `DATABASE_URL` must be set (e.g. `postgres://localhost`).
+A folder named `files` needs to be created next to the application.
+
+Other things are not configurable yet.
+
+- The application listens on port 8000
+- The server url is `http://localhost:8000/`
+- The upload limit is 8MiB
+- The maximum filename length is 255
+- The uploaded files are stored in the `files` directory
diff --git a/init-db.sql b/init-db.sql
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+CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS files (
+    id serial,
+    file_id varchar(255) not null,
+    file_name varchar(255) not null,
+    valid_till timestamp not null,
+    kind varchar(255) not null,
+    primary key (id)
+);
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diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
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--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -114,21 +114,10 @@ async fn setup_db() -> PgPool {
         .await
         .expect("could not create db pool");
 
-    sqlx::query!(
-        "
-        CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS files (
-            id serial,
-            file_id varchar(255) not null,
-            file_name varchar(255) not null,
-            valid_till timestamp not null,
-            kind varchar(255) not null,
-            primary key (id)
-        )
-        "
-    )
-    .execute(&pool)
-    .await
-    .expect("could not create table Files");
+    sqlx::query_file!("./init-db.sql")
+        .execute(&pool)
+        .await
+        .expect("could not create table Files");
 
     pool
 }
@@ -136,7 +125,6 @@ async fn setup_db() -> PgPool {
 #[actix_rt::main]
 async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
     std::env::set_var("RUST_LOG", "warn,datatrash=info,actix_web=info");
-    std::env::set_var("DATABASE_URL", "postgresql://localhost");
     env_logger::init();
 
     let pool: PgPool = setup_db().await;