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-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/Makefile3
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/maps.xml94
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/uri_string.xml98
3 files changed, 185 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/Makefile b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/Makefile
index aeed79408b..af27efa6c1 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/Makefile
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/Makefile
@@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ XML_REF3_FILES = \
XML_REF6_FILES = stdlib_app.xml
XML_PART_FILES = part.xml
-XML_CHAPTER_FILES = io_protocol.xml unicode_usage.xml notes.xml notes_history.xml assert_hrl.xml
+XML_CHAPTER_FILES = introduction.xml io_protocol.xml unicode_usage.xml \
+ notes.xml assert_hrl.xml
BOOK_FILES = book.xml
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/maps.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/maps.xml
index 8c7270816b..987d92989d 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/maps.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/maps.xml
@@ -33,16 +33,31 @@
<p>This module contains functions for maps processing.</p>
</description>
+ <datatypes>
+ <datatype>
+ <name name="iterator"/>
+ <desc>
+ <p>An iterator representing the key value associations in a map.</p>
+ <p>Created using <seealso marker="#iterator-1"><c>maps:iterator/1</c></seealso>.</p>
+ <p>Consumed by <seealso marker="#next-1"><c>maps:next/1</c></seealso>,
+ <seealso marker="#filter-2"><c>maps:filter/2</c></seealso>,
+ <seealso marker="#fold-3"><c>maps:fold/3</c></seealso> and
+ <seealso marker="#map-2"><c>maps:map/2</c></seealso>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </datatype>
+ </datatypes>
+
<funcs>
<func>
<name name="filter" arity="2"/>
<fsummary>Select pairs that satisfy a predicate.</fsummary>
<desc>
- <p>Returns a map <c><anno>Map2</anno></c> for which predicate
- <c><anno>Pred</anno></c> holds true in <c><anno>Map1</anno></c>.</p>
+ <p>Returns a map <c><anno>Map</anno></c> for which predicate
+ <c><anno>Pred</anno></c> holds true in <c><anno>MapOrIter</anno></c>.</p>
<p>The call fails with a <c>{badmap,Map}</c> exception if
- <c><anno>Map1</anno></c> is not a map, or with <c>badarg</c> if
- <c><anno>Pred</anno></c> is not a function of arity 2.</p>
+ <c><anno>MapOrIter</anno></c> is not a map or valid iterator,
+ or with <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Pred</anno></c> is not a
+ function of arity 2.</p>
<p><em>Example:</em></p>
<code type="none">
> M = #{a => 2, b => 3, c=> 4, "a" => 1, "b" => 2, "c" => 4},
@@ -76,12 +91,16 @@
<fsummary></fsummary>
<desc>
<p>Calls <c>F(K, V, AccIn)</c> for every <c><anno>K</anno></c> to value
- <c><anno>V</anno></c> association in <c><anno>Map</anno></c> in
+ <c><anno>V</anno></c> association in <c><anno>MapOrIter</anno></c> in
any order. Function <c>fun F/3</c> must return a new
accumulator, which is passed to the next successive call.
This function returns the final value of the accumulator. The initial
accumulator value <c><anno>Init</anno></c> is returned if the map is
empty.</p>
+ <p>The call fails with a <c>{badmap,Map}</c> exception if
+ <c><anno>MapOrIter</anno></c> is not a map or valid iterator,
+ or with <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Fun</anno></c> is not a
+ function of arity 3.</p>
<p><em>Example:</em></p>
<code type="none">
> Fun = fun(K,V,AccIn) when is_list(K) -> AccIn + V end,
@@ -169,6 +188,32 @@ false</code>
</func>
<func>
+ <name name="iterator" arity="1"/>
+ <fsummary>Create a map iterator.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Returns a map iterator <c><anno>Iterator</anno></c> that can
+ be used by <seealso marker="#next-1"><c>maps:next/1</c></seealso>
+ to traverse the key-value associations in a map. When iterating
+ over a map, the memory usage is guaranteed to be bounded no matter
+ the size of the map.</p>
+ <p>The call fails with a <c>{badmap,Map}</c> exception if
+ <c><anno>Map</anno></c> is not a map.</p>
+ <p><em>Example:</em></p>
+ <code type="none">
+> M = #{ a => 1, b => 2 }.
+#{a => 1,b => 2}
+> I = maps:iterator(M).
+[{a,1},{b,2}]
+> {K1, V1, I2} = maps:next(I).
+{a,1,[{b,2}]}
+> {K2, V2, I3} = maps:next(I2).
+{b,2,[]}
+> maps:next(I3).
+none</code>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
+ <func>
<name name="keys" arity="1"/>
<fsummary></fsummary>
<desc>
@@ -188,12 +233,16 @@ false</code>
<name name="map" arity="2"/>
<fsummary></fsummary>
<desc>
- <p>Produces a new map <c><anno>Map2</anno></c> by calling function
+ <p>Produces a new map <c><anno>Map</anno></c> by calling function
<c>fun F(K, V1)</c> for every <c><anno>K</anno></c> to value
- <c><anno>V1</anno></c> association in <c><anno>Map1</anno></c> in
+ <c><anno>V1</anno></c> association in <c><anno>MapOrIter</anno></c> in
any order. Function <c>fun F/2</c> must return value
<c><anno>V2</anno></c> to be associated with key <c><anno>K</anno></c>
- for the new map <c><anno>Map2</anno></c>.</p>
+ for the new map <c><anno>Map</anno></c>.</p>
+ <p>The call fails with a <c>{badmap,Map}</c> exception if
+ <c><anno>MapOrIter</anno></c> is not a map or valid iterator,
+ or with <c>badarg</c> if <c><anno>Fun</anno></c> is not a
+ function of arity 2.</p>
<p><em>Example:</em></p>
<code type="none">
> Fun = fun(K,V1) when is_list(K) -> V1*2 end,
@@ -234,6 +283,35 @@ false</code>
</func>
<func>
+ <name name="next" arity="1"/>
+ <fsummary>Get the next key and value from an iterator.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Returns the next key-value association in
+ <c><anno>Iterator</anno></c> and a new iterator for the
+ remaining associations in the iterator.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If there are no more associations in the iterator,
+ <c>none</c> is returned.
+ </p>
+ <p><em>Example:</em></p>
+ <code type="none">
+> Map = #{a => 1, b => 2, c => 3}.
+#{a => 1,b => 2,c => 3}
+> Iter = maps:iterator(Map).
+[{a,1},{b,2},{c,3}]
+> {_, _, Iter1} = maps:next(Iter).
+{a,1,[{b,2},{c,3}]}
+> {_, _, Iter2} = maps:next(Iter1).
+{b,2,[{c,3}]}
+> {_, _, Iter3} = maps:next(Iter2).
+{c,3,[]}
+> maps:next(Iter3).
+none</code>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
+ <func>
<name name="put" arity="3"/>
<fsummary></fsummary>
<desc>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/uri_string.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/uri_string.xml
index 9ace2b0a05..21f470e763 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/uri_string.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/uri_string.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
<modulesummary>URI processing functions.</modulesummary>
<description>
<p>This module contains functions for parsing and handling URIs
- (<url href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt">RFC 3986</url>).
+ (<url href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt">RFC 3986</url>) and
+ form-urlencoded query strings (<url href="https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html">HTML5</url>).
</p>
<p>A URI is an identifier consisting of a sequence of characters matching the syntax
rule named <em>URI</em> in <url href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt">RFC 3986</url>.
@@ -71,6 +72,13 @@
<item>Transforming URIs into a normalized form<br></br>
<seealso marker="#normalize/1"><c>normalize/1</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">
@@ -102,12 +110,15 @@
<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_encoding</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>
<p>The third component is a term providing additional information about the
cause of the error.</p>
@@ -134,6 +145,91 @@
<funcs>
<func>
+ <name name="compose_query" arity="1"/>
+ <fsummary>Compose urlencoded query string.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Composes a form-urlencoded <c><anno>QueryString</anno></c> based on a
+ <c><anno>QueryList</anno></c>, a list of non-percent-encoded key-value pairs.
+ Form-urlencoding is defined in section
+ 4.10.22.6 of the <url href="https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html">HTML5</url>
+ specification.
+ </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&city=%C3%B6rebro"]]>
+2> <![CDATA[uri_string:compose_query([{<<"foo bar">>,<<"1">>},
+2> {<<"city">>,<<"örebro"/utf8>>}]).]]>
+<![CDATA[<<"foo+bar=1&city=%C3%B6rebro">>]]>
+ </pre>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
+ <func>
+ <name name="compose_query" arity="2"/>
+ <fsummary>Compose urlencoded query string.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Same as <c>compose_query/1</c> but with an additional
+ <c><anno>Options</anno></c> parameter, that controls the encoding ("charset")
+ used by the encoding algorithm. There are two supported encodings: <c>utf8</c>
+ (or <c>unicode</c>) and <c>latin1</c>.
+ </p>
+ <p>Each character in the entry's name and value that cannot be expressed using
+ the selected character encoding, is replaced by a string consisting of a U+0026
+ AMPERSAND character (<![CDATA[&]]>), a "#" (U+0023) character, one or more ASCII
+ digits representing the Unicode code point of the character in base ten, and
+ finally a ";" (U+003B) character.
+ </p>
+ <p>Bytes that are out of the range 0x2A, 0x2D, 0x2E, 0x30 to 0x39, 0x41 to 0x5A, 0x5F,
+ 0x61 to 0x7A, are percent-encoded (U+0025 PERCENT SIGN character (%) followed by
+ uppercase ASCII hex digits representing the hexadecimal value of the byte).
+ </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>
+1> [{encoding, latin1}]).
+<![CDATA["foo+bar=1&city=%F6rebro"
+2> uri_string:compose_query([{<<"foo bar">>,<<"1">>},
+2> {<<"city">>,<<"東京"/utf8>>}], [{encoding, latin1}]).]]>
+<![CDATA[<<"foo+bar=1&city=%26%2326481%3B%26%2320140%3B">>]]>
+ </pre>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
+ <func>
+ <name name="dissect_query" arity="1"/>
+ <fsummary>Dissect query string.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Dissects an urlencoded <c><anno>QueryString</anno></c> and returns a
+ <c><anno>QueryList</anno></c>, a list of non-percent-encoded key-value pairs.
+ Form-urlencoding is defined in section
+ 4.10.22.6 of the <url href="https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html">HTML5</url>
+ specification.
+ </p>
+ <p>It is not as strict for its input as the decoding algorithm defined by
+ <url href="https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html">HTML5</url>
+ and accepts all unicode characters.</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><![CDATA[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=%26%2326481%3B%26%2320140%3B">>).]]>
+<![CDATA[[{<<"foo bar">>,<<"1">>},
+ {<<"city">>,<<230,157,177,228,186,172>>}] ]]>
+ </pre>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
+ <func>
<name name="normalize" arity="1"/>
<fsummary>Syntax-based normalization.</fsummary>
<desc>