util: add truncate package (#7490)

This package handles cases where we need to truncate human-readable text to fit
a length constraint without leaving "ragged" multi-byte rune fragments at the
end of the truncated value.

Change-Id: Id972135d1880485f41b1fedfb65c2b8cc012d416
Signed-off-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@tailscale.com>

util/truncate/truncate_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+package truncate_test
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"tailscale.com/util/truncate"
+)
+
+func TestString(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		input string
+		size  int
+		want  string
+	}{
+		{"", 1000, ""},                 // n > length
+		{"abc", 4, "abc"},              // n > length
+		{"abc", 3, "abc"},              // n == length
+		{"abcdefg", 4, "abcd"},         // n < length, safe
+		{"abcdefg", 0, ""},             // n < length, safe
+		{"abc\U0001fc2d", 3, "abc"},    // n < length, at boundary
+		{"abc\U0001fc2d", 4, "abc"},    // n < length, mid-rune
+		{"abc\U0001fc2d", 5, "abc"},    // n < length, mid-rune
+		{"abc\U0001fc2d", 6, "abc"},    // n < length, mid-rune
+		{"abc\U0001fc2defg", 7, "abc"}, // n < length, cut multibyte
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range tests {
+		got := truncate.String(tc.input, tc.size)
+		if got != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("truncate(%q, %d): got %q, want %q", tc.input, tc.size, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+}