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Utilities for working with URIs.

This module provides functions for working with URIs (for example, parsing URIs or encoding query strings). The functions in this module are implemented according to RFC 3986.

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Functions

Checks if character is a reserved one in a URI.

Checks if character is allowed unescaped in a URI.

Checks if character is an unreserved one in a URI.

Percent-unescapes a URI.

Decodes a query string into a map.

Decodes string as "x-www-form-urlencoded".

Returns the default port for a given scheme.

Registers the default port for the given scheme.

Percent-escapes all characters that require escaping in string.

Encodes an enumerable into a query string.

Encodes string as "x-www-form-urlencoded".

Merges two URIs.

Parses a well-formed URI reference into its components.

Returns a stream of two-element tuples representing key-value pairs in the given query.

Returns the string representation of the given URI struct.

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@type t() :: %URI{
  authority: nil | binary(),
  fragment: nil | binary(),
  host: nil | binary(),
  path: nil | binary(),
  port: nil | :inet.port_number(),
  query: nil | binary(),
  scheme: nil | binary(),
  userinfo: nil | binary()
}

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char_reserved?(character)

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@spec char_reserved?(byte()) :: boolean()

Checks if character is a reserved one in a URI.

As specified in RFC 3986, section 2.2, the following characters are reserved: :, /, ?, #, [, ], @, !, $, &, ', (, ), *, +, ,, ;, =

Examples

iex> URI.char_reserved?(?+)
true
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char_unescaped?(character)

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@spec char_unescaped?(byte()) :: boolean()

Checks if character is allowed unescaped in a URI.

This is the default used by URI.encode/2 where both reserved and unreserved characters are kept unescaped.

Examples

iex> URI.char_unescaped?(?{)
false
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char_unreserved?(character)

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@spec char_unreserved?(byte()) :: boolean()

Checks if character is an unreserved one in a URI.

As specified in RFC 3986, section 2.3, the following characters are unreserved:

  • Alphanumeric characters: A-Z, a-z, 0-9
  • ~, _, -, .

Examples

iex> URI.char_unreserved?(?_)
true
@spec decode(binary()) :: binary()

Percent-unescapes a URI.

Examples

iex> URI.decode("https%3A%2F%2Felixir-lang.org")
"https://elixir-lang.org"
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decode_query(query, map \\ %{})

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@spec decode_query(binary(), %{optional(binary()) => binary()}) :: %{
  optional(binary()) => binary()
}

Decodes a query string into a map.

Given a query string in the form of key1=value1&key2=value2..., this function inserts each key-value pair in the query string as one entry in the given map. Keys and values in the resulting map will be binaries. Keys and values will be percent-unescaped.

Use query_decoder/1 if you want to iterate over each value manually.

Examples

iex> URI.decode_query("foo=1&bar=2")
%{"bar" => "2", "foo" => "1"}

iex> URI.decode_query("percent=oh+yes%21", %{"starting" => "map"})
%{"percent" => "oh yes!", "starting" => "map"}
@spec decode_www_form(binary()) :: binary()

Decodes string as "x-www-form-urlencoded".

Examples

iex> URI.decode_www_form("%3Call+in%2F")
"<all in/"
@spec default_port(binary()) :: nil | non_neg_integer()

Returns the default port for a given scheme.

If the scheme is unknown to the URI module, this function returns nil. The default port for any scheme can be configured globally via default_port/2.

Examples

iex> URI.default_port("ftp")
21

iex> URI.default_port("ponzi")
nil
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default_port(scheme, port)

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@spec default_port(binary(), non_neg_integer()) :: :ok

Registers the default port for the given scheme.

After this function is called, port will be returned by default_port/1 for the given scheme scheme. Note that this function changes the default port for the given scheme globally, meaning for every application.

It is recommended for this function to be invoked in your application's start callback in case you want to register new URIs.

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encode(string, predicate \\ &char_unescaped?/1)

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@spec encode(binary(), (byte() -> as_boolean(term()))) :: binary()

Percent-escapes all characters that require escaping in string.

This means reserved characters, such as : and /, and the so-called unreserved characters, which have the same meaning both escaped and unescaped, won't be escaped by default.

See encode_www_form/1 if you are interested in escaping reserved characters too.

This function also accepts a predicate function as an optional argument. If passed, this function will be called with each byte in string as its argument and should return a truthy value (anything other than false or nil) if the given byte should be left as is, or return a falsy value (false or nil) if the character should be escaped. Defaults to URI.char_unescaped?/1.

Examples

iex> URI.encode("ftp://s-ite.tld/?value=put it+й")
"ftp://s-ite.tld/?value=put%20it+%D0%B9"

iex> URI.encode("a string", &(&1 != ?i))
"a str%69ng"
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encode_query(enumerable)

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@spec encode_query(Enum.t()) :: binary()

Encodes an enumerable into a query string.

Takes an enumerable that enumerates as a list of two-element tuples (for instance, a map or a keyword list) and returns a string in the form of key1=value1&key2=value2... where keys and values are URL encoded as per encode_www_form/1.

Keys and values can be any term that implements the String.Chars protocol with the exception of lists, which are explicitly forbidden.

Examples

iex> hd = %{"foo" => 1, "bar" => 2}
iex> URI.encode_query(hd)
"bar=2&foo=1"

iex> query = %{"key" => "value with spaces"}
iex> URI.encode_query(query)
"key=value+with+spaces"

iex> URI.encode_query(%{key: [:a, :list]})
** (ArgumentError) encode_query/1 values cannot be lists, got: [:a, :list]
@spec encode_www_form(binary()) :: binary()

Encodes string as "x-www-form-urlencoded".

Example

iex> URI.encode_www_form("put: it+й")
"put%3A+it%2B%D0%B9"
@spec merge(t() | binary(), t() | binary()) :: t()

Merges two URIs.

This function merges two URIs as per RFC 3986, section 5.2.

Examples

iex> URI.merge(URI.parse("http://google.com"), "/query") |> to_string()
"http://google.com/query"

iex> URI.merge("http://example.com", "http://google.com") |> to_string()
"http://google.com"
@spec parse(t() | binary()) :: t()

Parses a well-formed URI reference into its components.

Note this function expects a well-formed URI and does not perform any validation. See the "Examples" section below for examples of how URI.parse/1 can be used to parse a wide range of URIs.

This function uses the parsing regular expression as defined in RFC 3986, Appendix B.

When a URI is given without a port, the value returned by URI.default_port/1 for the URI's scheme is used for the :port field.

If a %URI{} struct is given to this function, this function returns it unmodified.

Examples

iex> URI.parse("https://elixir-lang.org/")
%URI{
  authority: "elixir-lang.org",
  fragment: nil,
  host: "elixir-lang.org",
  path: "/",
  port: 443,
  query: nil,
  scheme: "https",
  userinfo: nil
}

iex> URI.parse("//elixir-lang.org/")
%URI{
  authority: "elixir-lang.org",
  fragment: nil,
  host: "elixir-lang.org",
  path: "/",
  port: nil,
  query: nil,
  scheme: nil,
  userinfo: nil
}

iex> URI.parse("/foo/bar")
%URI{
  authority: nil,
  fragment: nil,
  host: nil,
  path: "/foo/bar",
  port: nil,
  query: nil,
  scheme: nil,
  userinfo: nil
}

iex> URI.parse("foo/bar")
%URI{
  authority: nil,
  fragment: nil,
  host: nil,
  path: "foo/bar",
  port: nil,
  query: nil,
  scheme: nil,
  userinfo: nil
}
@spec query_decoder(binary()) :: Enumerable.t()

Returns a stream of two-element tuples representing key-value pairs in the given query.

Key and value in each tuple will be binaries and will be percent-unescaped.

Examples

iex> URI.query_decoder("foo=1&bar=2") |> Enum.to_list()
[{"foo", "1"}, {"bar", "2"}]

iex> URI.query_decoder("food=bread%26butter&drinks=tap%20water") |> Enum.to_list()
[{"food", "bread&butter"}, {"drinks", "tap water"}]
@spec to_string(t()) :: binary()

Returns the string representation of the given URI struct.

Examples

iex> uri = URI.parse("http://google.com")
iex> URI.to_string(uri)
"http://google.com"

iex> uri = URI.parse("foo://bar.baz")
iex> URI.to_string(uri)
"foo://bar.baz"

Note that when creating this string representation, the :authority value will be used if the :host is nil. Otherwise, the :userinfo, :host, and :port will be used.

iex> URI.to_string(%URI{authority: "foo@example.com:80"})
"//foo@example.com:80"

iex> URI.to_string(%URI{userinfo: "bar", host: "example.org", port: 81})
"//bar@example.org:81"

iex> URI.to_string(%URI{
...>   authority: "foo@example.com:80",
...>   userinfo: "bar",
...>   host: "example.org",
...>   port: 81
...> })
"//bar@example.org:81"