chore: move string utils to central location (#334)

## Issue
None

## Description
Move string utils package to common location for reuse

Signed-off-by: Artur Shad Nik <artur@spectrocloud.com>

internal/utils/strings/strings.go

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+// Package strings contains utility functions for working with strings.
+package strings
+
+import "strings"
+
+// DeDupeStrSlice deduplicates a slices of strings
+func DeDupeStrSlice(ss []string) []string {
+	found := make(map[string]bool)
+	l := []string{}
+	for _, s := range ss {
+		if _, ok := found[s]; !ok {
+			found[s] = true
+			l = append(l, s)
+		}
+	}
+	return l
+}
+
+// Sanitize sends a string to lowercase, trims whitespace, replaces all non alphanumeric characters with a dash,
+// removes consecutive dashes, and trims any leading or trailing dashes.
+func Sanitize(s string) string {
+	s = strings.ToLower(s)
+	s = strings.TrimSpace(s)
+	s = strings.Map(func(r rune) rune {
+		if r >= 'a' && r <= 'z' || r >= '0' && r <= '9' {
+			return r
+		}
+		return '-'
+	}, s)
+
+	// Remove consecutive dashes
+	var b strings.Builder
+	prevDash := false
+	for _, r := range s {
+		if r == '-' {
+			if !prevDash {
+				b.WriteRune(r)
+				prevDash = true
+			}
+		} else {
+			b.WriteRune(r)
+			prevDash = false
+		}
+	}
+
+	return strings.Trim(b.String(), "-")
+}

internal/utils/strings/strings_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+package strings
+
+import (
+	"slices"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestDeDupeStrSlice(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name     string
+		input    []string
+		expected []string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:     "Empty slice",
+			input:    []string{},
+			expected: []string{},
+		},
+		{
+			name:     "Single element",
+			input:    []string{"foo"},
+			expected: []string{"foo"},
+		},
+		{
+			name:     "Duplicate elements",
+			input:    []string{"foo", "foo"},
+			expected: []string{"foo"},
+		},
+		{
+			name:     "Multiple elements",
+			input:    []string{"foo", "bar", "foo", "baz", "bar"},
+			expected: []string{"foo", "bar", "baz"},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			actual := DeDupeStrSlice(tt.input)
+			if len(actual) != len(tt.expected) {
+				t.Fatalf("expected %v, got %v", tt.expected, actual)
+			}
+			if !slices.Equal(actual, tt.expected) {
+				t.Fatalf("expected %v, got %v", tt.expected, actual)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSanitize(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name     string
+		input    string
+		expected string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:     "Empty string",
+			input:    "",
+			expected: "",
+		},
+		{
+			name:     "Lowercase",
+			input:    "FOO",
+			expected: "foo",
+		},
+		{
+			name:     "Trim whitespace",
+			input:    "  foo  ",
+			expected: "foo",
+		},
+		{
+			name:     "Replace non-alphanumeric characters",
+			input:    "foo-bar_baz",
+			expected: "foo-bar-baz",
+		},
+		{
+			name:     "Remove consecutive & leading/trailing dashes",
+			input:    "! Example---string  with  **multiple** non-alphanumeric---characters---! ",
+			expected: "example-string-with-multiple-non-alphanumeric-characters",
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			actual := Sanitize(tt.input)
+			if actual != tt.expected {
+				t.Fatalf("expected %v, got %v", tt.expected, actual)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}