Ability to post in Forum

server/db/model/Posts.js

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+import OrderedObject from "./OrderedObject.js"
+const { z } = require("zod")
+
+export default class Posts extends OrderedObject {
+    schema = z.object({
+        text: z.string(),
+        time: z.string(),
+        sentBy: z.string()
+    })
+
+    makeID(forum, number) {
+        return `POST-${forum}-${number}`
+    }
+
+    save(post, id) {
+        let result = this.schema.safeParse(post)
+        if(result.success) {
+            try {
+                super.add(id, post)
+            } catch(e) {
+                console.error(e)
+                throw e
+            }
+        } else {
+            console.error("Failed parsing member: ", result.error)
+            throw new global.ServerError(400, "Invalid Member Data!: ");
+        }
+    }
+
+    get(forum, number) {
+        let result = []
+        let limit = Math.min(number, this.entries.length)
+        for(let i=1; i<=limit; i++) {
+            let id = this.makeID(forum, i)
+            let post = this.entries[this.ids[id]]
+            let {firstName, lastName} = global.db.members.get(post.sentBy)
+            let seededObj = {
+                ...post
+            }
+            seededObj.sentByID = post.sentBy
+            seededObj.sentBy = firstName + " " + lastName
+            result.push(seededObj)
+        }
+        return result
+    }
+
+    async add(text, forum, userEmail) {
+        let newPost = {}
+        newPost.text = text
+        newPost.sentBy = db.members.getIDFromEmail(userEmail)
+        newPost.time = global.currentTime()
+
+        let idNumber = this.entries.length+1
+        super.add(this.makeID(forum, idNumber), newPost)
+    }
+}