Templates: embed the templates in-binary

Rocket's templating is not exactly friendly when it comes to embedding
in-binary. Rocket's template fairing requires a `template_dir` directory
pointing to the directory containing templates.
A quick workaround to this would be to have custom fairings with
`template_dir` merged with the value `.`
But in bare-metal scenarios like what docker's scratch image mimics, we
don't exactly have a '.' file, so instead for this very project, I have
to point the `template_dir` to the `upload` folder, which is created by
`bin` on execution. Checkout the Dockerfile for more info

Signed-off-by: Gunwant Jain <mail@wantguns.dev>

Dockerfile

@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 FROM rust as builder
 WORKDIR /app
 COPY . .
-# scratch does not have the mkdir binary, so we create a folder here
-RUN mkdir -p empty_upload
 
 ARG ARCH
 RUN __ARCH="$(dpkg --print-architecture)"; \
@@ -24,15 +22,11 @@ RUN cargo clean
 
 ###### Runner Image
 FROM scratch as runner
-COPY --from=builder /app/empty_upload upload
-COPY ./contrib/cli/client upload/client
-COPY ./templates templates
-COPY ./static static
-COPY ./themes themes
 COPY --from=builder /usr/local/cargo/bin/bin .
 
-ENV ROCKET_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0
-ENV ROCKET_PORT=6162
-
+ENV BIN_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0
+# Some hax required since we are running on scratch
+ENV BIN_TEMPLATE_DIR=upload
 EXPOSE 6162
+
 CMD ["./bin"]

docker-compose.yml

@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ services:
     image: wantguns/bin
     container_name: pastebin
     ports:
-      - 127.0.0.1:6162:6162
+      - 127.0.0.1:6163:6163
     environment:
-      - ROCKET_PORT=6162
-      - ROCKET_LIMITS={form="16 MiB"}
+      - BIN_PORT=6163
+      - BIN_LIMITS={form="16 MiB"}
     volumes:
-      - ./upload:/app/upload  # upload folder will have your pastes
+      - ./upload:/upload  # upload folder will have your pastes

src/main.rs

@@ -3,12 +3,35 @@ extern crate rocket;
 use std::{fs, net::IpAddr, path::PathBuf};
 
 use clap::Parser;
-use rocket::shield::{NoSniff, Shield};
-use rocket_dyn_templates::Template;
+use rocket::{shield::{NoSniff, Shield}, figment::{providers::Env, Figment}};
+use rocket_dyn_templates::{tera::Tera, Template};
+use rust_embed::RustEmbed;
 
 mod models;
 mod routes;
 
+#[derive(RustEmbed)]
+#[folder = "templates/"]
+struct EmbeddedTemplates;
+
+fn setup_tera_engine(tera: &mut Tera) {
+    // Register templates
+    let base_html = EmbeddedTemplates::get("base.html.tera").unwrap();
+    let index_html = EmbeddedTemplates::get("index.html.tera").unwrap();
+    let pretty_html = EmbeddedTemplates::get("pretty.html.tera").unwrap();
+
+    // and shove them in the tera instance
+    tera.add_raw_templates(vec![
+        ("base", std::str::from_utf8(&base_html.data).unwrap()),
+        ("index", std::str::from_utf8(&index_html.data).unwrap()),
+        (
+            "pretty",
+            std::str::from_utf8(&pretty_html.data).unwrap(),
+        ),
+    ])
+    .expect("Could not add raw templates to the tera instance");
+}
+
 /// A minimal, opinionated pastebin
 #[derive(Parser, Debug)]
 #[clap(author, version, about, long_about=None)]
@@ -22,7 +45,7 @@ pub struct Args {
     port: u16,
 
     /// Address on which the webserver runs
-    #[clap(short, long, default_value = "0.0.0.0")]
+    #[clap(short, long, default_value = "127.0.0.1")]
     address: IpAddr,
 
     /// Binary uploads file size limit (in MiB)
@@ -40,14 +63,21 @@ pub fn get_upload_dir() -> PathBuf {
 
 #[launch]
 fn rocket() -> _ {
-    let shield = Shield::default().disable::<NoSniff>();
     let args = get_parsed_args();
 
+    // Custom Fairings and Providers
+    let shield = Shield::default().disable::<NoSniff>();
+    let figment = Figment::from(rocket::Config::default())
+        .merge(("port", args.port))
+        .merge(("address", args.address))
+        .merge(("template_dir", ".")) // Required if embedding templates
+        .merge(Env::prefixed("BIN_").global());
+
     // create the upload directory, if not already created
     fs::create_dir_all(args.upload)
         .expect("Could not create the upload directory");
 
-    rocket::build()
+    rocket::custom(figment)
         .mount(
             "/",
             routes![
@@ -62,5 +92,7 @@ fn rocket() -> _ {
             ],
         )
         .attach(shield)
-        .attach(Template::fairing())
+        .attach(Template::custom(|engines| {
+            setup_tera_engine(&mut engines.tera)
+        }))
 }