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pkg/utils/config/config.go

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ type User struct {
 	SecretKey string
 }
 
+// Initialize config directory and template config
 func (c *Config) SetupConfig() error {
 	confPath := path.Join(helpers.HomeDir(), ".minio")
 	if err := os.MkdirAll(confPath, os.ModeDir); err != nil {
@@ -58,10 +59,12 @@ func (c *Config) SetupConfig() error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// Get config file location
 func (c *Config) GetConfigPath() string {
 	return c.configPath
 }
 
+// Verify if user exists
 func (c *Config) IsUserExists(username string) bool {
 	for _, user := range c.Users {
 		if user.Name == username {
@@ -71,6 +74,7 @@ func (c *Config) IsUserExists(username string) bool {
 	return false
 }
 
+// Get user based on accesskey
 func (c *Config) GetKey(accessKey string) User {
 	value, ok := c.Users[accessKey]
 	if !ok {
@@ -79,6 +83,7 @@ func (c *Config) GetKey(accessKey string) User {
 	return value
 }
 
+// Get user based on username
 func (c *Config) GetUser(username string) User {
 	for _, user := range c.Users {
 		if user.Name == username {
@@ -88,6 +93,7 @@ func (c *Config) GetUser(username string) User {
 	return User{}
 }
 
+// Add a new user into existing User list
 func (c *Config) AddUser(user User) {
 	var currentUsers map[string]User
 	if len(c.Users) == 0 {
@@ -99,12 +105,14 @@ func (c *Config) AddUser(user User) {
 	c.Users = currentUsers
 }
 
+// Write encoded json in config file
 func (c *Config) WriteConfig() error {
+	c.configLock.Lock()
+	defer c.configLock.Unlock()
+
 	var file *os.File
 	var err error
 
-	c.configLock.Lock()
-	defer c.configLock.Unlock()
 	file, err = os.OpenFile(c.configFile, os.O_WRONLY, 0666)
 	defer file.Close()
 	if err != nil {
@@ -116,13 +124,14 @@ func (c *Config) WriteConfig() error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// Read json config file and decode
 func (c *Config) ReadConfig() error {
-	var file *os.File
-	var err error
-
 	c.configLock.RLock()
 	defer c.configLock.RUnlock()
 
+	var file *os.File
+	var err error
+
 	file, err = os.OpenFile(c.configFile, os.O_RDONLY, 0666)
 	defer file.Close()
 	if err != nil {
@@ -143,6 +152,9 @@ func (c *Config) ReadConfig() error {
 	}
 }
 
+/// helpers
+
+// Load all users into memory
 func Loadusers() map[string]User {
 	c := Config{}
 	c.SetupConfig()
@@ -150,6 +162,7 @@ func Loadusers() map[string]User {
 	return c.Users
 }
 
+// Load a given user based on accessKey
 func Loadkey(accessKeyId string) User {
 	c := Config{}
 	c.SetupConfig()
@@ -157,6 +170,7 @@ func Loadkey(accessKeyId string) User {
 	return c.GetKey(accessKeyId)
 }
 
+// Load a given user based on username
 func Loaduser(username string) User {
 	c := Config{}
 	c.SetupConfig()

pkg/utils/crypto/keys/common.go

@@ -21,10 +21,14 @@ const (
 	MINIO_SECRET_ID = 40
 )
 
+/// helpers
+
+// Is alphanumeric?
 func isalnum(c byte) bool {
 	return '0' <= c && c <= '9' || 'A' <= c && c <= 'Z' || 'a' <= c && c <= 'z'
 }
 
+// validate access key for only alphanumeric characters
 func ValidateAccessKey(key []byte) bool {
 	for _, char := range key {
 		if isalnum(char) {

pkg/utils/crypto/keys/keys.go

@@ -21,9 +21,14 @@ import (
 	"encoding/base64"
 )
 
+// Static alphaNumeric table used for generating unique keys
 var alphaNumericTable = []byte("0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")
 var alphaNumericTableFull = []byte("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789")
 
+/// helpers
+
+// Generate random alpha numeric value using only uppercase characters
+// takes input as size in integer
 func GetRandomAlphaNumeric(size int) ([]byte, error) {
 	alpha := make([]byte, size)
 	_, err := rand.Read(alpha)
@@ -37,6 +42,8 @@ func GetRandomAlphaNumeric(size int) ([]byte, error) {
 	return alpha, nil
 }
 
+// Generate random alpha numeric value using all alphanumeric characters
+// takes input as size in integer
 func GetRandomAlphaNumericFull(size int) ([]byte, error) {
 	alphaFull := make([]byte, size)
 	_, err := rand.Read(alphaFull)
@@ -49,6 +56,7 @@ func GetRandomAlphaNumericFull(size int) ([]byte, error) {
 	return alphaFull, nil
 }
 
+// Generate random base64 numeric value from a random seed.
 func GetRandomBase64(size int) ([]byte, error) {
 	rb := make([]byte, size)
 	_, err := rand.Read(rb)

pkg/utils/crypto/signers/signers.go

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/minio-io/minio/pkg/utils/config"
 )
 
+// Sign a given http request using HMAC style signatures
 func SignRequest(user config.User, req *http.Request) {
 	if date := req.Header.Get("Date"); date == "" {
 		req.Header.Set("Date", time.Now().UTC().Format(http.TimeFormat))
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ func SignRequest(user config.User, req *http.Request) {
 	req.Header.Set("Authorization", authHeader.String())
 }
 
-// This package implements verification side of Object API Signature request
+// Validate an API request by validating its signature using HMAC signatures
 func ValidateRequest(user config.User, req *http.Request) (bool, error) {
 	// Verify if date headers are set, if not reject the request
 	if req.Header.Get("x-amz-date") == "" {
@@ -101,6 +102,7 @@ func getStringToSign(req *http.Request) string {
 	return buf.String()
 }
 
+// Lower all upper case letters
 func hasPrefixCaseInsensitive(s, pfx string) bool {
 	if len(pfx) > len(s) {
 		return false
@@ -113,6 +115,7 @@ func hasPrefixCaseInsensitive(s, pfx string) bool {
 	return shead == pfx || shead == strings.ToLower(pfx)
 }
 
+// Canonicalize amazon special headers, headers starting with 'x-amz-'
 func writeCanonicalizedAmzHeaders(buf *bytes.Buffer, req *http.Request) {
 	amzHeaders := make([]string, 0)
 	vals := make(map[string][]string)
@@ -146,7 +149,7 @@ func writeCanonicalizedAmzHeaders(buf *bytes.Buffer, req *http.Request) {
 	}
 }
 
-// Must be sorted:
+// Resource list must be sorted:
 var subResList = []string{"acl", "lifecycle", "location", "logging", "notification", "partNumber", "policy", "requestPayment", "torrent", "uploadId", "uploads", "versionId", "versioning", "versions", "website"}
 
 // From the Amazon docs:
@@ -155,6 +158,7 @@ var subResList = []string{"acl", "lifecycle", "location", "logging", "notificati
 // 	  <HTTP-Request-URI, from the protocol name up to the query string> +
 // 	  [ sub-resource, if present. For example "?acl", "?location", "?logging", or "?torrent"];
 func writeCanonicalizedResource(buf *bytes.Buffer, req *http.Request) {
+	// Grab bucket name from hostname
 	bucket := bucketFromHostname(req)
 	if bucket != "" {
 		buf.WriteByte('/')
@@ -182,6 +186,7 @@ func writeCanonicalizedResource(buf *bytes.Buffer, req *http.Request) {
 	}
 }
 
+// Convert subdomain http request into bucketname if possible
 func bucketFromHostname(req *http.Request) string {
 	host := req.Host
 	if host == "" {

pkg/utils/helpers/common.go

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 )
 
+// Get current user home directory
 func HomeDir() string {
 	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
 		home := os.Getenv("HOMEDRIVE") + os.Getenv("HOMEPATH")
@@ -35,16 +36,19 @@ func HomeDir() string {
 	return os.Getenv("HOME")
 }
 
+// Create a new temp directory
 func MakeTempTestDir() (string, error) {
 	return ioutil.TempDir("/tmp", "minio-test-")
 }
 
+// Assert wrapper for error not being null
 func Assert(err error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}
 }
 
+// Camelcase input string
 func FirstUpper(str string) string {
 	return strings.ToUpper(str[0:1]) + str[1:]
 }

pkg/utils/helpers/execpipe.go

@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ import (
 // A simple ExecPipe() pipes exec.Cmd together - somewhat similar to how bash pipes "|" behave.
 // Each command's standard output is connected to the standard input of the next command
 // and the output of the final command is returned
-
+//
+// TODO: handle errors properly
 func ExecPipe(cmds ...*exec.Cmd) (pipeLineOutput io.Reader, pipeLineError error) {
 	// Require at least one command
 	if len(cmds) < 1 {

pkg/utils/split/split.go

@@ -33,12 +33,6 @@ type SplitMessage struct {
 	Err  error
 }
 
-type JoinMessage struct {
-	Reader io.Reader
-	Length int64
-	Err    error
-}
-
 // SplitStream reads from io.Reader, splits the data into chunks, and sends
 // each chunk to the channel. This method runs until an EOF or error occurs. If
 // an error occurs, the method sends the error over the channel and returns.
@@ -98,6 +92,17 @@ func splitStreamGoRoutine(reader io.Reader, chunkSize uint64, ch chan SplitMessa
 	close(ch)
 }
 
+// JoinFiles reads from a given directory, joins data in chunks with prefix and sends
+// an io.Reader.
+//
+//  var err error
+//  for err == nil {
+//     buf := make([]byte, 1024*1024)
+//     reader := JoinFiles("mydirectory", "mypreferred-prefix")
+//     _, err = reader.Read(buf)
+//     fmt.Println(buf)
+// }
+//
 func JoinFiles(dirname string, inputPrefix string) io.Reader {
 	reader, writer := io.Pipe()
 	fileInfos, readError := ioutil.ReadDir(dirname)

pkg/utils/unitconv/unitconv.go

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 )
 
+// Units of various bytes in ascending order
 const (
 	UNIT_BYTE = 1 << (10 * iota)
 	UNIT_KILOBYTE
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ const (
 	UNIT_PETABYTE
 )
 
+// Convert bytes length in integer to human readable string
 func BytesToString(bytes uint64) string {
 	var unit string = "B"
 	var value uint64 = 0
@@ -58,6 +60,7 @@ func BytesToString(bytes uint64) string {
 	return fmt.Sprintf("%d%s", value, unit)
 }
 
+// Convert human readable string to bytes length in integer
 func StringToBytes(s string) (uint64, error) {
 	var bytes uint64
 	var err error