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authorPéter Dimitrov <[email protected]>2017-10-26 11:29:48 +0200
committerPéter Dimitrov <[email protected]>2017-10-26 16:32:27 +0200
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diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/uri_string.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/uri_string.xml
index d67c687fd1..8322eecb24 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/uri_string.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/uri_string.xml
@@ -30,10 +30,13 @@
<module>uri_string</module>
<modulesummary>URI processing functions.</modulesummary>
<description>
- <p>This module contains functions for parsing and handling URIs (RFC 3986) and
- form-urlencoded query strings (RFC 1866).</p>
+ <p>This module contains functions for parsing and handling URIs
+ (<url href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt">RFC 3986</url>) and
+ form-urlencoded query strings (<url href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1866.txt">RFC 1866</url>).
+ </p>
<p>A URI is an identifier consisting of a sequence of characters matching the syntax
- rule named <em>URI</em> in <em>RFC 3986</em>.</p>
+ rule named <em>URI</em> in <url href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt">RFC 3986</url>.
+ </p>
<p> The generic URI syntax consists of a hierarchical sequence of components referred
to as the scheme, authority, path, query, and fragment:</p>
<pre>
@@ -55,16 +58,24 @@
</pre><br></br>
<p>The interpretation of a URI depends only on the characters used and not on how those
characters are represented in a network protocol.</p>
- <p>The functions implemented by this module covers the following use cases:</p>
+ <p>The functions implemented by this module cover the following use cases:</p>
<list type="bulleted">
- <item>Parsing URIs<br></br>
- <c>parse/1</c></item>
- <item>Recomposing URIs<br></br>
- <c>recompose/2</c></item>
- <item>Transcoding URIs<br></br>
- <c>transcode/2</c></item>
- <item>Working with form-urlencoded query strings<br></br>
- <c>compose_query/[1,2], dissect_query/1</c></item>
+ <item>Parsing URIs into its components and returing a map<br></br>
+ <seealso marker="#parse/1"><c>parse/1</c></seealso>
+ </item>
+ <item>Recomposing a map of URI components into a URI string<br></br>
+ <seealso marker="#recompose/1"><c>recompose/1</c></seealso>
+ </item>
+ <item>Changing inbound binary and percent-encoding of URIs<br></br>
+ <seealso marker="#transcode/2"><c>transcode/2</c></seealso>
+ </item>
+ <item>Composing form-urlencoded query strings from a list of key-value pairs<br></br>
+ <seealso marker="#compose_query/1"><c>compose_query/1</c></seealso><br></br>
+ <seealso marker="#compose_query/2"><c>compose_query/2</c></seealso>
+ </item>
+ <item>Dissecting form-urlencoded query strings into a list of key-value pairs<br></br>
+ <seealso marker="#dissect_query/1"><c>dissect_query/1</c></seealso>
+ </item>
</list>
<p>There are four different encodings present during the handling of URIs:</p>
<list type="bulleted">
@@ -75,8 +86,7 @@
</list>
<p>Unless otherwise specified the return value type and encoding are the same as the input
type and encoding. That is, binary input returns binary output, list input returns a list
- output but mixed input returns list output. Input and output encodings are the same except
- for <c>transcode/2</c>.</p>
+ output but mixed input returns list output.</p>
<p>All of the functions but <c>transcode/2</c> expects input as unicode codepoints in
lists, UTF-8 encoding in binaries and UTF-8 encoding in percent-encoded URI parts.
<c>transcode/2</c> provides the means to convert between the supported URI encodings.</p>
@@ -84,6 +94,22 @@
<datatypes>
<datatype>
+ <name name="error"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Error tuple indicating the type of error. Possible values of the second component:</p>
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item><c>invalid_character</c></item>
+ <item><c>invalid_input</c></item>
+ <item><c>invalid_map</c></item>
+ <item><c>invalid_percent_encoding</c></item>
+ <item><c>invalid_scheme</c></item>
+ <item><c>invalid_uri</c></item>
+ <item><c>invalid_utf8</c></item>
+ <item><c>missing_value</c></item>
+ </list>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+ <datatype>
<name name="uri_map"/>
<desc>
<p>URI map holding the main components of a URI.</p>
@@ -93,7 +119,8 @@
<name name="uri_string"/>
<desc>
<p>List of unicode codepoints, UTF-8 encoded binary, or a mix of the two,
- representing an RFC 3986 compliant URI (<em>percent-encoded form</em>).
+ representing an <url href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt">RFC 3986</url>
+ compliant URI (<em>percent-encoded form</em>).
A URI is a sequence of characters from a very limited set: the letters of
the basic Latin alphabet, digits, and a few special characters.</p>
</desc>
@@ -109,13 +136,21 @@
<p>Composes a form-urlencoded <c><anno>QueryString</anno></c> based on a
<c><anno>QueryList</anno></c>, a list of unescaped key-value pairs.
Media type <c>application/x-www-form-urlencoded</c> is defined in section
- 8.2.1 of <c>RFC 1866</c> (HTML 2.0). Reserved and unsafe characters, as
- defined by RFC 1738 (Uniform Resource Locators), are percent-encoded.
+ 8.2.1 of <url href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1866.txt">RFC 1866</url>
+ (HTML 2.0). Reserved and unsafe characters, as
+ defined by <url href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt">RFC 1738</url>
+ (Uniform Resource Locators), are percent-encoded.</p>
+ <p>See also the opposite operation <seealso marker="#dissect_query/1">
+ <c>dissect_query/1</c></seealso>.
</p>
<p><em>Example:</em></p>
<pre>
-1> <input>uri_string:compose_query([{"foo bar","1"},{"city","örebro"}]).</input>
-<![CDATA["foo+bar=1&amp;city=%C3%B6rebro"]]>
+1> <input>uri_string:compose_query([{"foo bar","1"},{"city","örebro"}],</input>
+1> [{separator, semicolon}]).
+"foo+bar=1;city=%C3%B6rebro"
+2> <![CDATA[uri_string:compose_query([{<<"foo bar">>,<<"1">>},
+2> {<<"city">>,<<"örebro"/utf8>>}]).]]>
+<![CDATA[<<"foo+bar=1&amp;city=%C3%B6rebro">>]]>
</pre>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -127,11 +162,14 @@
<p>Same as <c>compose_query/1</c> but with an additional
<c><anno>Options</anno></c> parameter, that controls the type of separator used
between key-value pairs. There are three supported separator types: <c>amp</c> (<![CDATA[&]]>), <c>escaped_amp</c> (<![CDATA[&amp;]]>) and <c>semicolon</c> (;). If the parameter <c><anno>Options</anno></c> is empty, separator takes the default value (<c>escaped_amp</c>).</p>
+ <p>See also the opposite operation <seealso marker="#dissect_query/1">
+ <c>dissect_query/1</c></seealso>.
+ </p>
<p><em>Example:</em></p>
<pre>
1> <input>uri_string:compose_query([{"foo bar","1"},{"city","örebro"}],</input>
-2> [{separator, semicolon}]).
-"foo+bar=1;city=%C3%B6rebro"
+1> [{separator, amp}]).
+<![CDATA["foo+bar=1&city=%C3%B6rebro"]]>
</pre>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -143,13 +181,19 @@
<p>Dissects an urlencoded <c><anno>QueryString</anno></c> and returns a
<c><anno>QueryList</anno></c>, a list of unescaped key-value pairs.
Media type <c>application/x-www-form-urlencoded</c> is defined in section
- 8.2.1 of <c>RFC 1866</c> (HTML 2.0). Percent-encoded segments are decoded
- as defined by RFC 1738 (Uniform Resource Locators).
+ 8.2.1 of <url href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1866.txt">RFC 1866</url>
+ (HTML 2.0). Percent-encoded segments are decoded
+ as defined by <url href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt">RFC 1738</url>
+ (Uniform Resource Locators).</p>
+ <p>See also the opposite operation <seealso marker="#compose_query/1">
+ <c>compose_query/1</c></seealso>.
</p>
<p><em>Example:</em></p>
<pre>
1> <input>uri_string:dissect_query("foo+bar=1;city=%C3%B6rebro").</input>
[{"foo bar","1"},{"city","örebro"}]
+2> <![CDATA[uri_string:dissect_query(<<"foo+bar=1;city=%C3%B6rebro">>).]]>
+<![CDATA[[{<<"foo bar">>,<<"1">>},{<<"city">>,<<"örebro"/utf8>>}] ]]>
</pre>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -159,14 +203,19 @@
<fsummary>Parse URI into a map.</fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Returns a <c>URIMap</c>, that is a <em>uri_map()</em> with the parsed components
- of the <c><anno>URIString</anno></c>.</p>
- <p>If parsing fails, an error tuple is returned.</p>
+ of the <c><anno>URIString</anno></c>. If parsing fails, an error tuple is returned.</p>
+ <p>See also the opposite operation <seealso marker="#recompose/1">
+ <c>recompose/1</c></seealso>.</p>
<p><em>Example:</em></p>
<pre>
1> <input>uri_string:parse("foo://[email protected]:8042/over/there?name=ferret#nose").</input>
#{fragment => "nose",host => "example.com",
path => "/over/there",port => 8042,query => "name=ferret",
scheme => foo,userinfo => "user"}
+2> <![CDATA[uri_string:parse(<<"foo://[email protected]:8042/over/there?name=ferret">>).]]>
+<![CDATA[#{host => <<"example.com">>,path => <<"/over/there">>,
+ port => 8042,query => <<"name=ferret">>,scheme => <<"foo">>,
+ userinfo => <<"user">>}]]>
</pre>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -175,12 +224,15 @@
<name name="recompose" arity="1"/>
<fsummary>Recompose URI.</fsummary>
<desc>
- <p>Returns an RFC 3986 compliant <c><anno>URIString</anno></c> (percent-encoded).</p>
- <p>If the <c><anno>URIMap</anno></c> is invalid, an error tuple is returned.</p>
+ <p>Returns an <url href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt">RFC 3986</url> compliant
+ <c><anno>URIString</anno></c> (percent-encoded).
+ If the <c><anno>URIMap</anno></c> is invalid, an error tuple is returned.</p>
+ <p>See also the opposite operation <seealso marker="#parse/1">
+ <c>parse/1</c></seealso>.</p>
<p><em>Example:</em></p>
<pre>
1> <input>URIMap = #{fragment => "nose", host => "example.com", path => "/over/there",</input>
-port => 8042, query => "name=ferret", scheme => "foo", userinfo => "user"}.
+1> port => 8042, query => "name=ferret", scheme => "foo", userinfo => "user"}.
#{fragment => "top",host => "example.com",
path => "/over/there",port => 8042,query => "?name=ferret",
scheme => foo,userinfo => "user"}
@@ -194,14 +246,15 @@ port => 8042, query => "name=ferret", scheme => "foo", userinfo => "user"}.
<name name="transcode" arity="2"/>
<fsummary>Transcode URI.</fsummary>
<desc>
- <p>Transcodes an RFC 3986 compliant <c><anno>URIString</anno></c>,
+ <p>Transcodes an <url href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt">RFC 3986</url>
+ compliant <c><anno>URIString</anno></c>,
where <c><anno>Options</anno></c> is a list of tagged tuples, specifying the inbound
- (<c>in_encoding</c>) and outbound (<c>out_encoding</c>) encodings.</p>
- <p>If an argument is invalid, an error tuple is returned.</p>
+ (<c>in_encoding</c>) and outbound (<c>out_encoding</c>) encodings.
+ If an argument is invalid, an error tuple is returned.</p>
<p><em>Example:</em></p>
<pre>
1> <input><![CDATA[uri_string:transcode(<<"foo%00%00%00%F6bar"/utf32>>,]]></input>
-2> [{in_encoding, utf32},{out_encoding, utf8}]).
+1> [{in_encoding, utf32},{out_encoding, utf8}]).
<![CDATA[<<"foo%C3%B6bar"/utf8>>]]>
</pre>
</desc>