urilib/README.md

urilib

RFC-3986 URI Library for Erlang.

Parse and build URIs with automatic percent encoding and plus encoding of query arguments.

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API

Functions

Function	Description
build/1	Build a URI from a uri() or url.
parse/1	Parse a URI from a string, returning a uri().
parse/2	Parse a URI, returning the result as either a uri() or url().
percent_decode/1	Decode a percent encoded string value.
percent_encode/1	Percent encode a string value.
plus_decode/1	Decode a percent encoded string value that uses pluses for spaces.
plus_encode/1	Percent encode a string value similar to encode/1, but encodes spaces with a plus (+) instead of %20.

Types

Type	Definition
scheme()	`http
username()	`string()
password()	`string()
userinfo()	`{username(), password()}
host()	string()
tcp_port()	integer()
authority()	{userinfo(), host(), tcp_port()}
path()	string()
query()	`[tuple()
fragment()	`string()
uri()	{scheme(), authority(), path(), query(), fragment()}
url()	{scheme(), username(), password(), host(), tcp_port(), path(), query(), fragment()}

Example Usage

Eshell V7.2.1  (abort with ^G)
1> urilib:build({http, {{"guest", "guest"}, "localhost", 15672}, "/api/queues", [{"name", "test"}], undefined}).
"http://guest:guest@localhost:15672/api/queues?name=test"

2> urilib:build({http, "guest", "guest", "localhost", 15672, "/api/queues", [{"name", "test"}], undefined}).    
"http://guest:guest@localhost:15672/api/queues?name=test"

3> urilib:parse("http://guest:guest@localhost:15672/api/queues?name=test").
{http,{{"guest","guest"},"localhost",15672},
      "/api/queues",
      [{"name","test"}],
      undefined}