use std::str::FromStr; use activitypub_federation::url::Url; use rand::{distributions::Alphanumeric, thread_rng, Rng}; use url::ParseError; /// Just generate random url as object id. In a real project, you probably want to use /// an url which contains the database id for easy retrieval (or store the random id in db). pub fn generate_object_id(domain: &str) -> Result { let id: String = thread_rng() .sample_iter(&Alphanumeric) .take(7) .map(char::from) .collect(); Url::from_str(&format!("https://{}/objects/{}", domain, id)) }