- fix: issue where login failed to return the user if their role was null

- add: register route for api-service
- update: spawn a thread for the rest api in the api service

auth-service/src/grpc.rs

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use crate::users::{hash_password, verify_user};
 use chrono::{Duration, Utc};
 use rand::Rng;
 use tonic::{Request, Response, Status};
-use tracing::{info, warn};
+use tracing::{error, info, warn};
 
 pub struct MyAuthService<T: DatabaseClientTrait + Clone> {
     pub db_client: T,
@@ -62,11 +62,19 @@ impl<T: DatabaseClientTrait + Send + Sync + Clone + 'static> AuthService for MyA
         let hashed_password = hash_password(&req.password);
 
         // Create user in the database
-        let user = self.db_client.clone().create_user(&req.username, &req.email, &hashed_password)
-            .await
-            .map_err(|e| Status::internal(format!("Database error: {}", e)))?;
+        let result = self.db_client.clone().create_user(&req.username, &req.email, &hashed_password)
+            .await;
 
-        Ok(Response::new(RegisterResponse { user_id: user.user_id }))
+        match result {
+            Ok(user) => Ok(Response::new(RegisterResponse {
+                user_id: user.user_id,
+                message: "User registered successfully".into(),
+            })),
+            Err(e) => {
+                error!("Failed to register user: {:?}", e);
+                Err(Status::internal("Failed to register user"))
+            }
+        }
     }
 
     async fn request_password_reset(

auth-service/src/users.rs

@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ pub fn verify_password(password: &str, hash: &str) -> bool {
 
 pub async fn verify_user<T: DatabaseClientTrait>(mut db_client: T,
                          username: &str, password: &str) -> Option<String> {
-    // Placeholder: Replace with a gRPC call to the Database Service
     let user = db_client.get_user_by_username(username).await.ok()?;
 
     if verify_password(password, &user.hashed_password) {