use rand::{distributions::Alphanumeric, thread_rng, Rng}; use url::{ParseError, Url}; /// 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(hostname: &str) -> Result { let id: String = thread_rng() .sample_iter(&Alphanumeric) .take(7) .map(char::from) .collect(); Url::parse(&format!("http://{}/objects/{}", hostname, id)) }