APR::URI - Perl API for URI manipulations


NAME

APR::URI - Perl API for URI manipulations


Synopsis

  use APR::URI ();

  my $url = 'http://user:pass@example.com:80/foo?bar#item5';

  # parse and break the url into components
  my $parsed = APR::URI->parse($r->pool, $url);
  print $parsed->scheme;
  print $parsed->user;
  print $parsed->password;
  print $parsed->hostname;
  print $parsed->port;
  print $parsed->path;
  print $parsed->query;
  print $parsed->fragment;

  # reconstruct the url, after changing some components and completely
  # removing other
  $parsed->scheme($new_scheme);
  $parsed->user(undef);
  $parsed->password(undef);
  $parsed->hostname($new_hostname);
  $parsed->port($new_port);
  $parsed->path($new_path);
  $parsed->query(undef);
  $parsed->fragment(undef);
  print $parsed->unparse;

  # get the password field too (by default it's not revealed)
  use APR::Const -compile => qw(URI_UNP_REVEALPASSWORD);
  print $parsed->unparse(APR::URI_UNP_REVEALPASSWORD);

  # what the default port for the ftp protocol?
  my $ftp_port = APR::URI::port_of_scheme("ftp");


Description

APR::URI allows you to parse URI strings, manipulate each of the URI elements and deparse them back into URIs.

All APR::URI object accessors accept a string or an undef value as an argument. Same goes for return value. It's important to distinguish between an empty string and undef. For example let's say your code was:

  my $uri = 'http://example.com/foo?bar#item5';
  my $parsed = APR::URI->parse($r->pool, $uri);

Now you no longer want to the query and fragment components in the final url. If you do:

  $parsed->fragment('');
  $parsed->query('');

followed by:

  my $new_uri = parsed->unparse;

the resulting URI will be:

  http://example.com/foo?#

which is probably not something that you've expected. In order to get rid of the separators, you must completely unset the fields you don't want to see. So, if you do:

  $parsed->fragment(undef);
  $parsed->query(undef);

followed by:

  my $new_uri = parsed->unparse;

the resulting URI will be:

   http://example.com/foo

As mentioned earlier the same goes for return values, so continuing this example:

  my $new_fragment = $parsed->fragment();
  my $new_query    = $parsed->query();

Both values now contain undef, therefore you must be careful when using the return values, when you use them, as you may get warnings.

Also make sure you read through the unparse() section|/C_unparse_> as various optional flags affect how the deparsed URI is rendered.


API

APR::URI provides the following functions and/or methods:

fragment

Get/set trailing ``#fragment'' string

  $oldval = $parsed->fragment($newval);
obj: $parsed ( APR::URI object|docs::2.0::api::APR::URI )
opt arg1: $newval ( string or undef )
ret: $oldval ( string or undef )
since: 1.99_15

hostinfo

Get/set combined [user[:password]@]host[:port]

  $oldval = $parsed->hostinfo($newval);
obj: $parsed ( APR::URI object|docs::2.0::api::APR::URI )
opt arg1: $newval ( string or undef )
ret: $oldval ( string or undef )
since: 1.99_15

The hostinfo value is set automatically when parse()|/C_parse_ is called.

It's not updated if any of the individual fields is modified.

It's not used when unparse()|/C_unparse_ is called.

hostname

Get/set hostname

  $oldval = $parsed->hostname($newval);
obj: $parsed ( APR::URI object|docs::2.0::api::APR::URI )
opt arg1: $newval ( string or undef )
ret: $oldval ( string or undef )
since: 1.99_15

password

Get/set password (as in http://user:password@host:port/)

  $oldval = $parsed->password($newval);
obj: $parsed ( APR::URI object|docs::2.0::api::APR::URI )
opt arg1: $newval ( string or undef )
ret: $oldval ( string or undef )
since: 1.99_15

parse

Parse the URI string into URI components

  $parsed = APR::URI->parse($pool, $uri);
obj: $parsed ( APR::URI object or class|docs::2.0::api::APR::URI )
arg1: $pool ( string ) ( APR::Pool object|docs::2.0::api::APR::Pool )
arg2: $uri ( string )
The URI to parse

ret: $parsed ( APR::URI object or class|docs::2.0::api::APR::URI )
The parsed URI object

since: 1.99_10

After parsing, if a component existed but was an empty string (e.g. empty query http://hostname/path?) -- the corresponding accessor will return an empty string. If a component didn't exist (e.g. no query part http://hostname/path) -- the corresponding accessor will return undef.

path

Get/set the request path

  $oldval = $parsed->path($newval);
obj: $parsed ( APR::URI object|docs::2.0::api::APR::URI )
opt arg1: $newval ( string or undef )
ret: $oldval ( string or undef )
"/" if only scheme://host

since: 1.99_15

port

Get/set port number

  $oldval = $parsed->port($newval);
obj: $parsed ( APR::URI object|docs::2.0::api::APR::URI )
opt arg1: $newval ( number or string or undef )
ret: $oldval ( string or undef )
If the port component didn't appear in the parsed URI, APR internally calls port_of_scheme()|/C_port_of_scheme_ to find out the port number for the given scheme()|/C_scheme_.

since: 1.99_15

port_of_scheme

Return the default port for a given scheme. The recognized schemes are http, ftp, https, gopher, wais, nntp, snews and prospero.

  $port = APR::URI::port_of_scheme($scheme);
obj: $scheme ( string )
The scheme string

ret: $port (integer)
The default port for this scheme

since: 1.99_10

query

Get/set the query string (the part starting after '?' and all the way till the end or the '#fragment' part if the latter exists).

  $oldval = $parsed->query($newval);
obj: $parsed ( APR::URI object|docs::2.0::api::APR::URI )
opt arg1: $newval ( string or undef )
ret: $oldval ( string or undef )
since: 1.99_15

scheme

Get/set the protocol scheme (``http'', ``ftp'', ...)

  $oldval = $parsed->scheme($newval);
obj: $parsed ( APR::URI object|docs::2.0::api::APR::URI )
opt arg1: $newval ( string or undef )
ret: $oldval ( string or undef )
since: 1.99_15

user

Get/set user name (as in http://user:password@host:port/)

  $oldval = $parsed->user($newval);
obj: $parsed ( APR::URI object|docs::2.0::api::APR::URI )
opt arg1: $newval ( string or undef )
ret: $oldval ( string or undef )
since: 1.99_15

unparse

Unparse the URI components back into a URI string

  $new_uri = $parsed->unparse();
  $new_uri = $parsed->unparse($flags);
obj: $parsed ( APR::URI object|docs::2.0::api::APR::URI )
opt arg1: $flags ( the APR::Const :uri constants )
By default the constant APR::URI_UNP_OMITPASSWORD is passed.

If you need to pass more than one flag use unary |, e.g.:

  $flags = APR::URI_UNP_OMITUSER|APR::URI_UNP_OMITPASSWORD;

The valid flags constants are listed next

ret: $new_uri ( string )
since: 1.99_10

Valid flags constants:

To import all URI constants you could do:

  use APR::Const -compile => qw(:uri);

but there is a significant amount of them, most irrelevant to this method. Therefore you probably don't want to do that. Instead specify explicitly the ones that you need. All the relevant to this method constants start with APR::URI_UNP_.

And the available constants are:

APR::URI_UNP_OMITSITEPART
Don't show scheme|/C_scheme_, user|/C_user_, password|/C_password_, hostname|/C_hostname_ and port|/C_port_ components (i.e. if you want only the relative URI)

APR::URI_UNP_OMITUSER
Hide the user|/C_user_ component

APR::URI_UNP_OMITPASSWORD
Hide the password|/C_password_ component (the default)

APR::URI_UNP_REVEALPASSWORD
Reveal the password|/C_password_ component

APR::URI_UNP_OMITPATHINFO
Don't show path|/C_path_, query|/C_query_ and fragment|/C_fragment_ components

APR::URI_UNP_OMITQUERY
Don't show query|/C_query_ and fragment|/C_fragment_ components

Notice that some flags overlap.

If the optional $flags argument is passed and contains no APR::URI_UNP_OMITPASSWORD and no APR::URI_UNP_REVEALPASSWORD -- the password|/C_password_ part will be rendered as a literal "XXXXXXXX" string.

If the port|/C_port_ number matches the port_of_scheme()|/C_port_of_scheme_, the unparsed URI won't include it and there is no flag to force that port|/C_port_ to appear. If the port|/C_port_ number is non-standard it will show up in the unparsed string.

Examples:

Starting with the parsed URL:

  use APR::URI ();
  my $url = 'http://user:pass@example.com:80/foo?bar#item5';
  my $parsed = APR::URI->parse($r->pool, $url);

deparse it back including and excluding parts, using different values for the optional flags argument:


See Also

Apache::URI|docs::2.0::api::Apache::URI, mod_perl 2.0 documentation.


Copyright

mod_perl 2.0 and its core modules are copyrighted under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0.


Authors

The mod_perl development team and numerous contributors.

 APR::URI - Perl API for URI manipulations