From a7c8ff26cafcd9141c06255a99c202fc98f815cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Herring <jwherrin@iu.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 12:52:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] move shared utility functions into utils

---
 dbi/scholarship.go |  9 +++------
 dbi/utils.go       | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 dbi/utils.go

diff --git a/dbi/scholarship.go b/dbi/scholarship.go
index 09d8ea3..cbf91c5 100644
--- a/dbi/scholarship.go
+++ b/dbi/scholarship.go
@@ -4,10 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"database/sql"
 	"fmt"
-	"strings"
-	"time"
 
-	"github.com/google/uuid"
 )
 
 type Scholarship struct {
@@ -22,9 +19,9 @@ type Scholarship struct {
 
 func CreateScholarship(conn *sql.Conn, s *Scholarship) error {
 	if s.UID == "" {
-		s.UID = strings.ReplaceAll(uuid.New().String(), "-", "")
+		s.UID = GenUUID()
 	}
-	now := time.Now().Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05")
+	now := GetNow()
 	s.Created = now
 	s.Modified = now
 	_, err := conn.ExecContext(context.Background(),
@@ -50,7 +47,7 @@ func GetScholarship(conn *sql.Conn, uid string) (Scholarship, error) {
 }
 
 func UpdateScholarship(conn *sql.Conn, s *Scholarship) error {
-	s.Modified = time.Now().Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05")
+	s.Modified = GetNow()
 	_, err := conn.ExecContext(context.Background(),
 		`UPDATE scholarship SET Citation = ?, Hyperlink = ?, Status = ?, Modified = ?, Username = ?
 		 WHERE UID = ?`,
diff --git a/dbi/utils.go b/dbi/utils.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..66c9250
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dbi/utils.go
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package dbi
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/google/uuid"
+)
+
+const TMFormat = "2006-01-02 15:04:05"
+
+func GetNow() string {
+	return time.Now().Format(TMFormat)
+}
+
+func GenUUID() string {
+	return strings.ReplaceAll(uuid.New().String(), "-", "")
+}