fix: do not create unnecessary instances of Regex

Cargo.lock

@@ -682,6 +682,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "regex",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
+ "serde_regex",
  "serenity",
  "tokio",
 ]
@@ -779,6 +780,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "serde_regex"
+version = "1.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a8136f1a4ea815d7eac4101cfd0b16dc0cb5e1fe1b8609dfd728058656b7badf"
+dependencies = [
+ "regex",
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_urlencoded"
 version = "0.7.1"

Cargo.toml

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ serde_json = "1.0"
 tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["rt-multi-thread"] }
 log = "0.4"
 regex = "1.0"
+serde_regex = "1.1"
 chrono = "0.4"
 
 [dependencies.serenity]

src/main.rs

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
 use chrono::{DateTime, Duration, NaiveDateTime, Utc};
-use configuration::application::Configuration;
 use log::{error, info, trace, LevelFilter};
 use logger::logging::SimpleLogger;
+use model::application::Configuration;
 use regex::Regex;
 use serenity::client::{Context, EventHandler};
 use serenity::model::channel::{GuildChannel, Message};
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ use serenity::model::prelude::command::Command;
 use serenity::model::prelude::interaction::{Interaction, InteractionResponseType, MessageFlags};
 use serenity::prelude::{GatewayIntents, RwLock, TypeMapKey};
 use serenity::{async_trait, Client};
-mod configuration;
 mod logger;
+mod model;
 
 static LOGGER: SimpleLogger = SimpleLogger;
 
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ async fn get_configuration_lock(ctx: &Context) -> Arc<RwLock<Configuration>> {
 		.clone()
 }
 
-fn contains_match(strings: &Vec<String>, text: &String) -> bool {
-	strings.iter().any(|regex| Regex::new(regex).unwrap().is_match(&text))
+fn contains_match(regex: &Vec<Regex>, text: &String) -> bool {
+	regex.iter().any(|r| r.is_match(&text))
 }
 
 fn load_configuration() -> Configuration {

src/model/application.rs

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 use std::fs::File;
 use std::io::{Error, Read, Write};
 
+use regex::Regex;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 
 #[derive(Default, Serialize, Deserialize)]
@@ -107,14 +108,16 @@ pub struct Author {
 pub struct Includes {
 	pub channels: Vec<u64>,
 	#[serde(rename = "match")]
-	pub match_field: Vec<String>,
+	#[serde(with = "serde_regex")]
+	pub match_field: Vec<Regex>,
 }
 
 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub struct Excludes {
 	pub roles: Vec<u64>,
 	#[serde(rename = "match")]
-	pub match_field: Vec<String>,
+	#[serde(with = "serde_regex")]
+	pub match_field: Vec<Regex>,
 }
 
 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]