Basic redirection working

actix/src/utils.rs

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+use crate::database;
+use actix_web::web;
+use regex::Regex;
+
+pub fn get_longurl(shortlink: web::Path<String>) -> String {
+    if validate_link(&shortlink) {
+        database::find_url(shortlink.as_str())
+    } else {
+        String::from("")
+    }
+}
+
+fn validate_link(link: &str) -> bool {
+    let re = Regex::new("[a-z0-9-_]+").unwrap();
+    re.is_match(link)
+}