feat: add album and miscellaneous controllers with album mapping

Tools/GeneralUseHelperFunctions.cs

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
 using Shadow.Data;
 using Shadow.Entities;
 using System.Text;
+using System.Xml.Serialization;
 
 namespace Shadow.Tools;
 
@@ -46,4 +47,55 @@ public class GeneralUseHelpers(ApplicationDbContext? db = null, IConfiguration?
 
 		return "{" + resultJson[..^2] + "}";
 	}
+
+	public async Task<User?> GetUserFromForm(HttpRequest request)
+	{
+		User? user = null;
+		try
+		{
+			string username = request.Form["u"]!;
+			string saltedPassword = request.Form["t"]!;
+			string sesame = request.Form["s"]!;
+
+			User? foundUser = _db?.Users
+				.FirstOrDefault(u => u.NormalizedName == username.ToLower());
+
+			if (foundUser == null)
+				return user;
+
+			string resaltedPassword = MetadataExtractor.GetStringMD5($"{foundUser.Password}{sesame}");
+			if (resaltedPassword == saltedPassword)
+				user = foundUser;
+		}
+		catch
+		{
+			user = null;
+		}
+		
+		return user;
+	}
+
+	public async Task<User?> GetUserFromParams(HttpRequest request)
+	{
+		User? user = null;
+		try
+		{
+			string username = request.Query["u"]!;
+			string saltedPassword = request.Query["t"]!;
+			string sesame = request.Query["s"]!;
+
+			User foundUser = _db!.Users
+				.FirstOrDefault(u => u.NormalizedName == username.ToLower())!;
+
+			string resaltedPassword = MetadataExtractor.GetStringMD5($"{foundUser.Password}{sesame}");
+			if (resaltedPassword == saltedPassword)
+				user = foundUser;
+		}
+		catch
+		{
+			user = null;
+		}
+
+		return user;
+	}
 }