OliverBooth/Areas/Blog/Pages/Article.cshtml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 @{
     ViewData["Title"] = post.Title;
-    User author = Model.Author;
+    Author author = Model.Author;
     DateTimeOffset published = post.Published;
 }
 
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
 
 <h1>@post.Title</h1>
 <p class="text-muted">
-    <img class="blog-author-icon" src="https://gravatar.com/avatar/@author.AvatarHash?s=28" alt="@author.DisplayName">
+    <img class="blog-author-icon" src="https://gravatar.com/avatar/@author.AvatarHash?s=28" alt="@author.Name">
-    @author.DisplayName &bull;
+    @author.Name &bull;
 
     <abbr data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-title="@published.ToString("dddd, d MMMM yyyy HH:mm")">
         Published @published.Humanize()

OliverBooth/Areas/Blog/Pages/Article.cshtml.cs

@@ -12,24 +12,21 @@ namespace OliverBooth.Areas.Blog.Pages;
 public class Article : PageModel
 {
     private readonly BlogService _blogService;
-    private readonly BlogUserService _blogUserService;
 
     /// <summary>
     ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="Article" /> class.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="blogService">The <see cref="BlogService" />.</param>
-    /// <param name="blogUserService">The <see cref="BlogUserService" />.</param>
+    public Article(BlogService blogService)
-    public Article(BlogService blogService, BlogUserService blogUserService)
     {
         _blogService = blogService;
-        _blogUserService = blogUserService;
     }
 
     /// <summary>
     ///     Gets the author of the post.
     /// </summary>
     /// <value>The author of the post.</value>
-    public User Author { get; private set; } = null!;
+    public Author Author { get; private set; } = null!;
 
     /// <summary>
     ///     Gets a value indicating whether the post is a legacy WordPress post.
@@ -54,7 +51,7 @@ public class Article : PageModel
         }
 
         Post = post;
-        Author = _blogUserService.TryGetUser(post.AuthorId, out User? author) ? author : null!;
+        Author = _blogService.TryGetAuthor(post, out Author? author) ? author : null!;
         return Page();
     }
 }

OliverBooth/Areas/Blog/Pages/RawArticle.cshtml.cs

@@ -13,17 +13,14 @@ namespace OliverBooth.Areas.Blog.Pages;
 public class RawArticle : PageModel
 {
     private readonly BlogService _blogService;
-    private readonly BlogUserService _blogUserService;
 
     /// <summary>
     ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="RawArticle" /> class.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="blogService">The <see cref="BlogService" />.</param>
-    /// <param name="blogUserService">The <see cref="BlogUserService" />.</param>
+    public RawArticle(BlogService blogService)
-    public RawArticle(BlogService blogService, BlogUserService blogUserService)
     {
         _blogService = blogService;
-        _blogUserService = blogUserService;
     }
 
     public IActionResult OnGet(int year, int month, int day, string slug)
@@ -37,8 +34,8 @@ public class RawArticle : PageModel
 
         using Utf8ValueStringBuilder builder = ZString.CreateUtf8StringBuilder();
         builder.AppendLine("# " + post.Title);
-        if (_blogUserService.TryGetUser(post.AuthorId, out User? author))
+        if (_blogService.TryGetAuthor(post, out Author? author))
-            builder.AppendLine($"Author: {author.DisplayName}");
+            builder.AppendLine($"Author: {author.Name}");
 
         builder.AppendLine($"Published: {post.Published:R}");
         if (post.Updated.HasValue)

OliverBooth/Controllers/BlogApiController.cs

@@ -16,17 +16,14 @@ namespace OliverBooth.Controllers;
 public sealed class BlogApiController : ControllerBase
 {
     private readonly BlogService _blogService;
-    private readonly BlogUserService _blogUserService;
 
     /// <summary>
     ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="BlogApiController" /> class.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="blogService">The <see cref="BlogService" />.</param>
-    /// <param name="blogUserService">The <see cref="BlogUserService" />.</param>
+    public BlogApiController(BlogService blogService)
-    public BlogApiController(BlogService blogService, BlogUserService blogUserService)
     {
         _blogService = blogService;
-        _blogUserService = blogUserService;
     }
 
     [Route("count")]
@@ -70,12 +67,12 @@ public sealed class BlogApiController : ControllerBase
     public IActionResult GetAuthor(Guid id)
     {
         if (!ValidateReferer()) return NotFound();
-        if (!_blogUserService.TryGetUser(id, out User? author)) return NotFound();
+        if (!_blogService.TryGetAuthor(id, out Author? author)) return NotFound();
 
         return Ok(new
         {
             id = author.Id,
-            name = author.DisplayName,
+            name = author.Name,
             avatarHash = author.AvatarHash,
         });
     }

OliverBooth/Data/Blog/Author.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema;
+using System.Security.Cryptography;
+using System.Text;
+
+namespace OliverBooth.Data.Blog;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Represents an author of a blog post.
+/// </summary>
+public sealed class Author : IEquatable<Author>
+{
+    [NotMapped]
+    public string AvatarHash
+    {
+        get
+        {
+            if (EmailAddress is null)
+            {
+                return string.Empty;
+            }
+
+            using var md5 = MD5.Create();
+            ReadOnlySpan<char> span = EmailAddress.AsSpan();
+            int byteCount = Encoding.UTF8.GetByteCount(span);
+            Span<byte> bytes = stackalloc byte[byteCount];
+            Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(span, bytes);
+
+            Span<byte> hash = stackalloc byte[16];
+            md5.TryComputeHash(bytes, hash, out _);
+
+            var builder = new StringBuilder();
+            foreach (byte b in hash)
+            {
+                builder.Append(b.ToString("x2"));
+            }
+
+            return builder.ToString();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Gets or sets the email address of the author.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <value>The email address.</value>
+    public string? EmailAddress { get; set; }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Gets the ID of the author.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <value>The ID.</value>
+    public Guid Id { get; private set; }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Gets or sets the name of the author.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <value>The name.</value>
+    public string Name { get; set; } = string.Empty;
+
+    public bool Equals(Author? other)
+    {
+        if (ReferenceEquals(null, other)) return false;
+        if (ReferenceEquals(this, other)) return true;
+        return Id == other.Id;
+    }
+
+    public override bool Equals(object? obj)
+    {
+        return ReferenceEquals(this, obj) || obj is Author other && Equals(other);
+    }
+
+    public override int GetHashCode()
+    {
+        return Id.GetHashCode();
+    }
+}

OliverBooth/Data/Blog/Configuration/AuthorConfiguration.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
+using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Metadata.Builders;
+
+namespace OliverBooth.Data.Blog.Configuration;
+
+/// <summary>
+///     Represents the configuration for the <see cref="Author" /> entity.
+/// </summary>
+internal sealed class AuthorConfiguration : IEntityTypeConfiguration<Author>
+{
+    /// <inheritdoc />
+    public void Configure(EntityTypeBuilder<Author> builder)
+    {
+        builder.ToTable("Author");
+        builder.HasKey(e => e.Id);
+
+        builder.Property(e => e.Id);
+        builder.Property(e => e.Name).HasMaxLength(100).IsRequired();
+        builder.Property(e => e.EmailAddress).HasMaxLength(255).IsRequired(false);
+    }
+}

OliverBooth/Data/BlogContext.cs

@@ -20,18 +20,18 @@ public sealed class BlogContext : DbContext
         _configuration = configuration;
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Gets the set of authors.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <value>The set of authors.</value>
+    public DbSet<Author> Authors { get; internal set; } = null!;
+
     /// <summary>
     ///     Gets the set of blog posts.
     /// </summary>
     /// <value>The set of blog posts.</value>
     public DbSet<BlogPost> BlogPosts { get; internal set; } = null!;
 
-    /// <summary>
-    ///     Gets the set of users.
-    /// </summary>
-    /// <value>The set of users.</value>
-    public DbSet<User> Users { get; internal set; } = null!;
-
     /// <inheritdoc />
     protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder)
     {
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public sealed class BlogContext : DbContext
     /// <inheritdoc />
     protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
     {
+        modelBuilder.ApplyConfiguration(new AuthorConfiguration());
         modelBuilder.ApplyConfiguration(new BlogPostConfiguration());
-        modelBuilder.ApplyConfiguration(new UserConfiguration());
     }
 }

OliverBooth/DateFormatter.cs

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 using System.Globalization;
 using SmartFormat.Core.Extensions;
 
-namespace OliverBooth.Formatting;
+namespace OliverBooth;
 
 /// <summary>
 ///     Represents a SmartFormat formatter that formats a date.

OliverBooth/Formatting/MarkdownFormatter.cs

@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-using Markdig;
-using SmartFormat.Core.Extensions;
-
-namespace OliverBooth.Formatting;
-
-/// <summary>
-///     Represents a SmartFormat formatter that formats markdown.
-/// </summary>
-internal sealed class MarkdownFormatter : IFormatter
-{
-    private readonly IServiceProvider _serviceProvider;
-
-    /// <summary>
-    ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="MarkdownFormatter" /> class.
-    /// </summary>
-    /// <param name="serviceProvider">The <see cref="IServiceProvider" />.</param>
-    public MarkdownFormatter(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
-    {
-        _serviceProvider = serviceProvider;
-    }
-
-    /// <inheritdoc />
-    public bool CanAutoDetect { get; set; } = true;
-
-    /// <inheritdoc />
-    public string Name { get; set; } = "markdown";
-
-    /// <inheritdoc />
-    public bool TryEvaluateFormat(IFormattingInfo formattingInfo)
-    {
-        if (formattingInfo.CurrentValue is not string value)
-            return false;
-
-        var pipeline = _serviceProvider.GetService<MarkdownPipeline>();
-        formattingInfo.Write(Markdig.Markdown.ToHtml(value, pipeline));
-        return true;
-    }
-}

OliverBooth/Middleware/RssMiddleware.cs

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ namespace OliverBooth.Middleware;
 internal sealed class RssMiddleware
 {
     private readonly BlogService _blogService;
-    private readonly BlogUserService _userService;
     private readonly ConfigurationService _configurationService;
 
     /// <summary>
@@ -20,15 +19,12 @@ internal sealed class RssMiddleware
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="_">The request delegate.</param>
     /// <param name="blogService">The blog service.</param>
-    /// <param name="userService">The user service.</param>
     /// <param name="configurationService">The configuration service.</param>
     public RssMiddleware(RequestDelegate _,
         BlogService blogService,
-        BlogUserService userService,
         ConfigurationService configurationService)
     {
         _blogService = blogService;
-        _userService = userService;
         _configurationService = configurationService;
     }
 
@@ -46,14 +42,14 @@ internal sealed class RssMiddleware
             string excerpt = _blogService.GetExcerpt(blogPost, out _);
             var description = $"{excerpt}<p><a href=\"{url}\">Read more...</a></p>";
 
-            _userService.TryGetUser(blogPost.AuthorId, out User? author);
+            _blogService.TryGetAuthor(blogPost, out Author? author);
 
             var item = new BlogItem
             {
                 Title = blogPost.Title,
                 Link = url,
                 Comments = $"{url}#disqus_thread",
-                Creator = author?.DisplayName ?? string.Empty,
+                Creator = author?.Name ?? string.Empty,
                 PubDate = blogPost.Published.ToString("R"),
                 Guid = $"{baseUrl}?pid={blogPost.Id}",
                 Description = description

OliverBooth/Program.cs

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ using Markdig;
 using NLog;
 using NLog.Extensions.Logging;
 using OliverBooth.Data;
+using OliverBooth.Markdown;
 using OliverBooth.Markdown.Template;
 using OliverBooth.Markdown.Timestamp;
 using OliverBooth.Middleware;
@@ -18,7 +19,6 @@ builder.Logging.AddNLog();
 builder.Services.AddHostedSingleton<LoggingService>();
 builder.Services.AddSingleton<ConfigurationService>();
 builder.Services.AddSingleton<TemplateService>();
-builder.Services.AddSingleton<BlogUserService>();
 
 builder.Services.AddSingleton(provider => new MarkdownPipelineBuilder()
     .Use<TimestampExtension>()

OliverBooth/Services/BlogService.cs

@@ -64,6 +64,44 @@ public sealed class BlogService
         return RenderContent(result).Trim();
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Attempts to find the author by ID.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="id">The ID of the author.</param>
+    /// <param name="author">
+    ///     When this method returns, contains the <see cref="Author" /> associated with the specified ID, if the author
+    ///     is found; otherwise, <see langword="null" />.
+    /// </param>
+    /// <returns><see langword="true" /> if the author is found; otherwise, <see langword="false" />.</returns>
+    /// <exception cref="ArgumentNullException"><paramref name="post" /> is <see langword="null" />.</exception>
+    public bool TryGetAuthor(Guid id, [NotNullWhen(true)] out Author? author)
+    {
+        using BlogContext context = _dbContextFactory.CreateDbContext();
+        author = context.Authors.FirstOrDefault(a => a.Id == id);
+
+        return author is not null;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Attempts to find the author of a blog post.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="post">The blog post.</param>
+    /// <param name="author">
+    ///     When this method returns, contains the <see cref="Author" /> associated with the specified blog post, if the
+    ///     author is found; otherwise, <see langword="null" />.
+    /// </param>
+    /// <returns><see langword="true" /> if the author is found; otherwise, <see langword="false" />.</returns>
+    /// <exception cref="ArgumentNullException"><paramref name="post" /> is <see langword="null" />.</exception>
+    public bool TryGetAuthor(BlogPost post, [NotNullWhen(true)] out Author? author)
+    {
+        if (post is null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(post));
+
+        using BlogContext context = _dbContextFactory.CreateDbContext();
+        author = context.Authors.FirstOrDefault(a => a.Id == post.AuthorId);
+
+        return author is not null;
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     ///     Attempts to find a blog post by its publication date and slug.
     /// </summary>

OliverBooth/Services/BlogUserService.cs

@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
-using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
-using OliverBooth.Data;
-using OliverBooth.Data.Blog;
-
-namespace OliverBooth.Services;
-
-/// <summary>
-///     Represents a service for managing blog users.
-/// </summary>
-public sealed class BlogUserService
-{
-    private readonly IDbContextFactory<BlogContext> _dbContextFactory;
-
-    /// <summary>
-    ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="BlogUserService" /> class.
-    /// </summary>
-    /// <param name="dbContextFactory">The database context factory.</param>
-    public BlogUserService(IDbContextFactory<BlogContext> dbContextFactory)
-    {
-        _dbContextFactory = dbContextFactory;
-    }
-
-    /// <summary>
-    ///     Attempts to authenticate the user with the specified email address and password.
-    /// </summary>
-    /// <param name="emailAddress">The email address.</param>
-    /// <param name="password">The password.</param>
-    /// <param name="user">
-    ///     When this method returns, contains the user with the specified email address and password, if the user
-    ///     exists; otherwise, <see langword="null" />.
-    /// </param>
-    /// <returns>
-    ///     <see langword="true" /> if the authentication was successful; otherwise, <see langword="false" />.
-    /// </returns>
-    public bool TryAuthenticateUser(string? emailAddress, string? password, [NotNullWhen(true)] out User? user)
-    {
-        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(emailAddress) || string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(password))
-        {
-            user = null;
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        using BlogContext context = _dbContextFactory.CreateDbContext();
-        user = context.Users.FirstOrDefault(u => u.EmailAddress == emailAddress);
-        if (user is null)
-        {
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        string hashedPassword = BC.HashPassword(password, user.Salt);
-        return hashedPassword == user.Password;
-    }
-
-    /// <summary>
-    ///     Attempts to retrieve the user with the specified user ID.
-    /// </summary>
-    /// <param name="userId">The user ID.</param>
-    /// <param name="user">
-    ///     When this method returns, contains the user with the specified user ID, if the user exists; otherwise,
-    ///     <see langword="null" />.
-    /// </param>
-    /// <returns><see langword="true" /> if the user exists; otherwise, <see langword="false" />.</returns>
-    public bool TryGetUser(Guid userId, [NotNullWhen(true)] out User? user)
-    {
-        using BlogContext context = _dbContextFactory.CreateDbContext();
-        user = context.Users.FirstOrDefault(u => u.Id == userId);
-        return user is not null;
-    }
-
-    /// <summary>
-    ///     Returns a value indicating whether the specified user requires a password reset.
-    /// </summary>
-    /// <param name="user">The user.</param>
-    /// <returns>
-    ///     <see langword="true" /> if the specified user requires a password reset; otherwise,
-    ///     <see langword="false" />.
-    /// </returns>
-    public bool UserRequiresPasswordReset(User user)
-    {
-        return string.IsNullOrEmpty(user.Password) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(user.Salt);
-    }
-}

OliverBooth/Services/TemplateService.cs

@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
-using System.Buffers.Binary;
-using Markdig;
-using Markdig.Syntax;
 using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
 using OliverBooth.Data;
 using OliverBooth.Data.Web;
-using OliverBooth.Formatting;
+using OliverBooth.Markdown;
 using OliverBooth.Markdown.Template;
 using SmartFormat;
 using SmartFormat.Extensions;
@@ -16,25 +13,20 @@ namespace OliverBooth.Services;
 /// </summary>
 public sealed class TemplateService
 {
-    private static readonly Random Random = new();
-    private readonly IServiceProvider _serviceProvider;
     private readonly IDbContextFactory<WebContext> _webContextFactory;
     private readonly SmartFormatter _formatter;
 
     /// <summary>
     ///     Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="TemplateService" /> class.
     /// </summary>
-    /// <param name="serviceProvider">The <see cref="IServiceProvider" />.</param>
     /// <param name="webContextFactory">The <see cref="WebContext" /> factory.</param>
-    public TemplateService(IServiceProvider serviceProvider, IDbContextFactory<WebContext> webContextFactory)
+    public TemplateService(IDbContextFactory<WebContext> webContextFactory)
     {
         _formatter = Smart.CreateDefaultSmartFormat();
         _formatter.AddExtensions(new DefaultSource());
         _formatter.AddExtensions(new ReflectionSource());
         _formatter.AddExtensions(new DateFormatter());
-        _formatter.AddExtensions(new MarkdownFormatter(serviceProvider));
         
-        _serviceProvider = serviceProvider;
         _webContextFactory = webContextFactory;
         Current = this;
     }
@@ -52,7 +44,6 @@ public sealed class TemplateService
     public string RenderTemplate(TemplateInline templateInline)
     {
         if (templateInline is null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(templateInline));
-
         using WebContext webContext = _webContextFactory.CreateDbContext();
         ArticleTemplate? template = webContext.ArticleTemplates.Find(templateInline.Name);
         if (template is null)
@@ -60,21 +51,16 @@ public sealed class TemplateService
             return $"{{{{{templateInline.Name}}}}}";
         }
 
-        Span<byte> randomBytes = stackalloc byte[20];
-        Random.NextBytes(randomBytes);
-
         var formatted = new
         {
             templateInline.ArgumentList,
             templateInline.ArgumentString,
             templateInline.Params,
-            RandomInt = BinaryPrimitives.ReadInt32LittleEndian(randomBytes[..4]),
-            RandomGuid = new Guid(randomBytes[4..]).ToString("N"),
         };
 
         try
         {
-            return _formatter.Format(template.FormatString, formatted);
+            return Markdig.Markdown.ToHtml(_formatter.Format(template.FormatString, formatted));
         }
         catch
         {