From 0b9fa8d7c31e38ea0dae66500784a3e3b8bb4b16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mikiyas-stp <mikiyasgebremichaell@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2025 14:56:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] version of psycopg2 changed

---
 backend/requirements.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index e03836c..5e11b05 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ idna==3.10
 itsdangerous==2.2.0
 Jinja2==3.1.5
 MarkupSafe==3.0.2
-psycopg2==2.9.10
+psycopg2-binary==2.9.10
 pycparser==2.22
 PyJWT==2.10.1
 python-dotenv==1.0.1

From 0019746f2f642a9a52f51ae80af534237a2143f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mikiyas-stp <mikiyasgebremichaell@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 20:04:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] fix for extra long bloom:  i have added a maximum length
 validation on the backend to define the length of bllom securely(instead of
 changing something on the frontend): This way i fixed the bug by allowing
 overly long bloom content

---
 backend/endpoints.py | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backend/endpoints.py b/backend/endpoints.py
index 0e177a0..9890d78 100644
--- a/backend/endpoints.py
+++ b/backend/endpoints.py
@@ -157,8 +157,18 @@ def send_bloom():
         return type_check_error
 
     user = get_current_user()
-
-    blooms.add_bloom(sender=user, content=request.json["content"])
+#debugged for extra long bloom
+    content = request.json.get("content","")
+    MAX_BLOOM_LENGTH = 280
+    if len(content) > MAX_BLOOM_LENGTH:
+        return make_response(
+            {
+                "success": False,
+                "message": f"Bloom cannot exceed {MAX_BLOOM_LENGTH} characters",
+            },
+            400,
+        )
+    blooms.add_bloom(sender=user, content=content)
 
     return jsonify(
         {

From c3d1e2a529a0f8409ca245abc29b64d5d50d573f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mikiyas-stp <mikiyasgebremichaell@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 20:14:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Fix: extend the bloom word cout to 500 on the UI at
 index.html and the backend endpoints as well

---
 backend/endpoints.py | 2 +-
 front-end/index.html | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backend/endpoints.py b/backend/endpoints.py
index 9890d78..f07c377 100644
--- a/backend/endpoints.py
+++ b/backend/endpoints.py
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ def send_bloom():
     user = get_current_user()
 #debugged for extra long bloom
     content = request.json.get("content","")
-    MAX_BLOOM_LENGTH = 280
+    MAX_BLOOM_LENGTH = 500
     if len(content) > MAX_BLOOM_LENGTH:
         return make_response(
             {
diff --git a/front-end/index.html b/front-end/index.html
index 89d6b13..91407f5 100644
--- a/front-end/index.html
+++ b/front-end/index.html
@@ -217,11 +217,11 @@ <h2 id="bloom-form-title" class="bloom-form__title">Share a Bloom</h2>
               id="bloom-content"
               name="content"
               placeholder="What's happening?"
-              maxlength="280"
+              maxlength="500"
               spellcheck="true"
               required
             ></textarea>
-            <div class="bloom-form__counter" data-counter>0/280</div>
+            <div class="bloom-form__counter" data-counter>0/500</div>
           </div>
 
           <button type="submit" data-submit class="bloom-form__submit">