PDF Utility Canister - Rust - #37

Current Status: Retired

• Discussion (01/09/2023)
• Ratification: (01/09/2023)
• Open for application: (01/09/2023)
• Assigned (1/19/2021) - fyrex
• In Review
• Closed (9/28/23)

Forum Link - Discussion

Bounty Details

• Bounty Amount: $6,000 USD of ICP at award date.
• ICDevs.org Bounty Acceleration: For each 1 ICP sent to 860bd56f4c8a9d40f26462e51e2a4dd4e27cf0e1463372a1179df089695bfd63, ICDevs.org will add .25 ICP to this issue and .75 ICP to fund other ICDevs.org initiatives.
• Project Type: Team
• Opened: 01/09/2023
• Time Commitment: Weeks
• Project Type: Canister
• Experience Type: Intermediate - Rust;

Description

The PDF Utility canister will allow other canisters on the IC to generate PDF documents.

Requirements:

1. Use https://github.com/dabega/genpdf-rs to expose PDF generation functionality.
2. Allow a canister to push images/fonts/text blocks into the canister(Must support >2MB files, perhaps implement pipelinify schema - https://github.com/skilesare/pipelinify.mo)
3. Create a candid object notation for describing a PDF using the features supported by genpdf-rs.
4. Ability to references named, pushed files/fonts.
5. Provide performance tests and explanations of the limits of the canister’s ability to generate a PDF given cycle limits.
6. If the library requires multiple rounds to generate a reasonable PDF, consider implementing pipelinify with timers to automate the task across multiple rounds.

The canister should be created such that it can be deployed and assigned an allow list of callers.

It should also work as a library for other rust canisters that want to include the functionality as a part of another canister without compile errors.

With this version of a the canister, the user that wants PDF generation should deploy their own Utility canister so that they can manage their own cycles.

Upon completion of this bounty the developer will be auto qualified to implement any future bounty that may include an attempt to wrap the service as a broader utility complete with its own tokenomincs and potentially and eventual deployment via SNS or other DAO structure.

This bounty gives the opportunity to

• learn about pdf generation
• learn about pipelinify.mo
• learn how Implement a Utility canister on the IC.

To apply for this bounty you should:

• Include links to previous work writing tutorials and any other open-source contributions(ie. your github).
• Include a brief overview of how you will complete the task. This can include things like which dependencies you will use, how you will make it self-contained, the sacrifices you would have to make to achieve that, or how you will make it simple. Anything that can convince us you are taking a thoughtful and expert approach to this design.
• Give an estimated timeline on completing the task.
• Post your application text to the Bounty Thread

Selection Process

The ICDevs.org developer’s advisors will propose a vote to award the bounty and the Developer Advisors will vote.

Bounty Completion

Please keep your ongoing code in a public repository(fork or branch is ok). Please provide regular (at least weekly) updates. Code commits count as updates if you link to your branch/fork from the bounty thread. We just need to be able to see that you are making progress.

The balance of the bounty will be paid out at completion.

Once you have finished, please alert the dev forum thread that you have completed work and where we can find that work. We will review and award the bounty reward if the terms have been met. If there is any coordination work(like a pull request) or additional documentation needed we will inform you of what is needed before we can award the reward.

Bounty Abandonment and Re-awarding

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Funding

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Discussion

The draft bounty is posted to the DFINITY developer’s forum for discussion

Ratification: (01/09/2023)

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Open for application

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Assigned

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In Review

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Awarded

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