new helper function to generate channel parametesr for generating chanels

server/src/testing/mod.rs

@@ -17,3 +17,22 @@ pub fn hyper_resp() -> hyper::Response<hyper::Body> {
     Response::new(Body::empty())
 }
 
+
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+pub async fn tmp_channel_params(p: &mysql_async::Pool, chan_name: &'static str) -> crate::channels::Channel {
+    use crate::channels::{Channel, ChannelType};
+    use mysql_async::{params, prelude::Queryable};
+
+    let conn = p.get_conn().await.unwrap();
+    let _ = conn.prep_exec(
+        "INSERT INTO channels (name, description, kind) VALUES (:name, :description, :kind)", 
+        params!{"name" => chan_name, "kind" => 0, "description" => "no description for testing"}).await;
+
+    Channel {
+        id: 0,
+        name: chan_name.into(),
+        kind: ChannelType::Text,
+        description: "no description for testing".into()
+    }
+}