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| author | Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org> | 2024-11-18 01:17:24 -0800 |
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| committer | Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org> | 2024-11-18 08:33:05 -0800 |
| commit | ca6cfe359fa55a5a7f4b6ae73500ffd98e6ee968 (patch) | |
| tree | d69a9af2e88c9bf5bc0d565bdd2ea975f2723d52 /docs/ref | |
| parent | e54e2b1a98abfdb75232a9b3218714ce34c9a34f (diff) | |
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URL refactor part 1.
This eliminates most (but not all) of the dynamic allocations
associated with URL objects. A number of convenience fields
on the URL are removed, but we are able to use common buffer
for most of the details.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/ref')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/api/url.md | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/migrate/nng1.md | 13 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/api/url.md b/docs/ref/api/url.md index a7fb6f35..db9f3be2 100644 --- a/docs/ref/api/url.md +++ b/docs/ref/api/url.md @@ -14,13 +14,11 @@ that are not part of the IETF standards. typedef struct nng_url { const char *u_scheme; char *u_userinfo; - char *u_host; char *u_hostname; uint16_t u_port; char *u_path; char *u_query; char *u_fragment; - char *u_requri; } nng_url; ``` @@ -29,17 +27,18 @@ typedef struct nng_url { Applications may access individual fields, but must not free or alter them, as the underlying memory is managed by the library. +Additionally applications must not depend on the size of this structure. +Obtain one using `nng_parse_url`. + The fields of an `nng_url` object are as follows: - `u_scheme`: The URL scheme, such as "http" or "inproc". Always lower case. This will never be `NULL`. - `u_userinfo`: This username and password if supplied in the URL string. Will be `NULL` when not present. -- `u_host`: The full host part of the URL, including the port if present (separated by a colon.) - `u_hostname`: The name of the host, and may be the empty string in some cases. - `u_port`: The port. May be zero if irrelevant or not specified. - `u_path`: The path, typically used with HTTP or WebSockets. Will be empty string if not specified. - `u_query`: The query info (typically following `?` in the URL.) Will be `NULL` if not present. - `u_fragment`: This is used for specifying an anchor, the part after `#` in a URL. Will be `NULL` if not present. -- `u_requri`: The full Request-URI. Will be the empty string if not specified. > [!NOTE] > Other fields may also be present, but only those documented here are safe for application use. diff --git a/docs/ref/migrate/nng1.md b/docs/ref/migrate/nng1.md index b7ddea33..ddad9ff7 100644 --- a/docs/ref/migrate/nng1.md +++ b/docs/ref/migrate/nng1.md @@ -160,11 +160,20 @@ A number of the [statistics][statistic] functions take, or return, `const nng_st of plain `nng_stat *`. The ABI has not changed, but it may be necessary to declare certain methods variables `const` to avoid warnings about misuse of `const`. -## Url Structure Members +## Wildcards Not Valid in URLs + +The use of `*` to act as a wild card meaning all local interface addresses +is removed. The empty string already performs this function, and unlike +`*` is RFC compliant. + +## URL Structure Members The details of [`nng_url`] have changed as follows: - `u_port` is no longer a string, but a `uint16_t` -- `u_scheme` is a const char \* +- `u_scheme` is a `const char *` +- `u_requri` is removed - it can be easily formulated from the other fields. +- `u_host` is removed - use `u_hostname` and `u_port` to construct if needed +- `u_rawurl` is removed - a "cooked" URL can be obtained from the new [`nng_url_sprintf`] function. {{#include ../xref.md}} |
