API-36: 🚑 Fixing critical issue with the amount of sql connections

src/models/twitch-highlight-marker/HighlightMarker.db.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import * as dotenv from 'dotenv';
+
+const mariadb = require('mariadb');
+
+dotenv.config();
+
+export namespace HighlightMarkerDB {
+    const pool = mariadb.createPool({
+        host: process.env.DB_HOST,
+        user: process.env.DB_USER,
+        password: process.env.DB_PASSWORD,
+        database: process.env.BETTERZON_DATABASE,
+        connectionLimit: 5
+    });
+
+    export function getConnection() {
+        return pool;
+    }
+}

src/models/twitch-highlight-marker/addHighlight/addHighlights.service.ts

@@ -1,25 +1,15 @@
 import * as dotenv from 'dotenv';
+import {HighlightMarkerDB} from '../HighlightMarker.db';
 
 dotenv.config();
 
-const mariadb = require('mariadb');
-const pool = mariadb.createPool({
-    host: process.env.DB_HOST,
-    user: process.env.DB_USER,
-    password: process.env.DB_PASSWORD,
-    database: process.env.TWITCH_HIGHLIGHTS_DATABASE,
-    connectionLimit: 5
-});
-
 /**
  * Creates a new highlight entry in SQL
  * @param req_body The request body
  */
 export const createHighlightEntry = async (req_body: any) => {
-    let conn;
+    let conn = HighlightMarkerDB.getConnection();
     try {
-        conn = await pool.getConnection();
-
         const streamers = await conn.query('SELECT streamer_id FROM streamers WHERE username = ?', req_body.streamer);
         let streamer_id: number = -1;
 
@@ -34,9 +24,5 @@ export const createHighlightEntry = async (req_body: any) => {
         const rows = await conn.query('INSERT INTO highlights (streamer_id, stream_id, description, stream_timestamp, issuing_user, game) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)', params);
     } catch (err) {
         throw err;
-    } finally {
-        if (conn) {
-            conn.end();
-        }
     }
 };