Merge of /utilities

Server/utilities/utils.js

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+// Convert a JSON object to a buffer for the DB
+exports.JsonToBuffer = (jsonObject) => {
+    return Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(jsonObject))
+}
+
+// Convert a buffer from the DB to JSON object
+exports.BufferToJson = (buffer) => {
+    return JSON.parse(buffer.toString());
+}
+
+/** Find a key in an object by its value
+ * 
+ * @param {*} object The object to search
+ * @param {*} value The value to search the arrays in the object for
+ * @returns The key of the object that contains the value
+ */
+exports.getKeyByArrayValue = (object, value) => {
+    return Object.keys(object).find(key => object[key].includes(value));
+  }