API Key format

README.md

@@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ There is an option to run the code locally without using AWS and only using loca
     }
 } which also needs to be converted into `base64` value
 
+## API KEY VALIDATION
+- In ARKA Admin Frontend, create an API_KEY with the following format - 
+* Min length - 8 Max length - 20
+* contains atleast one Special characters out of these - `@$!%*-_&`
+* contains atleast one lowercase alphabet
+* contains atleast one uppercase alphabet
+* contains atleast one digit 0-9
+
 
 ## 🔙 Arka Backend
 

admin_frontend/src/components/ApiKeys.jsx

@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ const ApiKeysPage = () => {
 			toast.error("Please input both API_KEY & PRIVATE_KEY field");
 			return;
 		}
+		if (!/^(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*\d)(?=.*[@$!%*-_&])[A-Za-z\d@$!%*-_&]{8,}$/.test(apiKey)) {
+			toast.error("Invalid Validation: API_KEY format. Please see the docs for more info");
+			return;
+		}
 		try {
 			setLoading(true);
 			const requestData = {

backend/src/constants/ErrorMessage.ts

@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@ export default {
     INVALID_MODE: 'Invalid mode selected',
     DUPLICATE_RECORD: 'Duplicate record found',
     QUOTA_EXCEEDED: 'Quota exceeded for this month',
-    RECORD_NOT_FOUND: 'Api Key provided not found'
+    RECORD_NOT_FOUND: 'Api Key provided not found',
+    API_KEY_VALIDATION_FAILED: 'Api Key is not in the right format as described',
 }

backend/src/routes/admin.ts

@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ const adminRoutes: FastifyPluginAsync = async (server) => {
       if (!body) return reply.code(ReturnCode.FAILURE).send({ error: ErrorMessage.EMPTY_BODY });
       if (!body.API_KEY || !body.PRIVATE_KEY)
         return reply.code(ReturnCode.FAILURE).send({ error: ErrorMessage.INVALID_DATA });
+      if (!/^(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*\d)(?=.*[@$!%*-_&])[A-Za-z\d@$!%*-_&]{8,}$/.test(body.API_KEY))
+        return reply.code(ReturnCode.FAILURE).send({ error: ErrorMessage.API_KEY_VALIDATION_FAILED })
       const wallet = new ethers.Wallet(body.PRIVATE_KEY);
       const publicAddress = await wallet.getAddress();
       const result: any[] = await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {