Bound username length at creation (closes #184)
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A login stores the username in the session cookie, which cannot carry
a value past about 4096 bytes, so a username of about 2 KB or more
could never log in and the login answered 500.

Usernames are now limited to 1024 bytes, about half of what the cookie
can carry. The User model rejects a longer one with
ErrUsernameTooLong, and a check constraint on the users table rejects
it for any path that bypasses the model. The comment on
MaxUsernameBytes gives the arithmetic.

Model: opus-5-5
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package database
import (
"errors"
"fmt"
"gorm.io/gorm"
)
// MaxUsernameBytes is the longest username, in bytes, that a user may
// have. The same number appears in the check constraint on
// User.Username, because a struct tag cannot reference a constant.
//
// A login stores the username in the session cookie, and both
// securecookie and browsers refuse a cookie value past about 4096
// bytes. That value is the session base64-encoded twice, so it holds
// 4096 × 3/4 × 3/4 = 2304 bytes of session, and the signature,
// timestamp and the session's other values take about 270 of those: a
// username longer than about 2030 bytes can never log in. The limit is
// about half that, so the session can carry more values later without
// locking out an account whose username is already at the limit.
const MaxUsernameBytes = 1024
// ErrUsernameTooLong is returned when a user is saved with a username
// longer than MaxUsernameBytes.
var ErrUsernameTooLong = errors.New("username is too long")
// User represents a user of the webhooker service
//
//nolint:lll // a struct tag cannot wrap
type User struct {
BaseModel
Username string `gorm:"uniqueIndex;not null" json:"username"`
Password string `gorm:"not null" json:"-"` // Argon2 hashed
Username string `gorm:"uniqueIndex;not null;check:length(CAST(username AS BLOB)) <= 1024" json:"username"`
Password string `gorm:"not null" json:"-"` // Argon2 hashed
// Relations
Webhooks []Webhook `json:"webhooks,omitempty"`
APIKeys []APIKey `json:"apiKeys,omitempty"`
}
// BeforeSave rejects a username longer than MaxUsernameBytes, so every
// path that saves a user through GORM gets ErrUsernameTooLong rather
// than the database's constraint error. The check constraint behind it
// holds for any path that writes the table without this model.
func (u *User) BeforeSave(_ *gorm.DB) error {
if len(u.Username) > MaxUsernameBytes {
return fmt.Errorf(
"%w: %d bytes, limit is %d",
ErrUsernameTooLong,
len(u.Username),
MaxUsernameBytes,
)
}
return nil
}