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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] gitweb: href() function to generate URLs for CGI
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:01:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ecfnqj$5m9$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ecfnf0$4bg$1@sea.gmane.org

<opublikowany i wysłany>

Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> 
>>>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net> writes:
>> 
>> Junio>        my @result = (); 
>> Junio>         for (my $i = 0; $i < @mapping; $i += 2) {
>> Junio>                my ($name, $symbol) = ($mapping[$i], $mapping[$i+1]);
>> Junio>                if (defined $params{$name}) {
>> Junio>                        push @result, "$symbol=$params{$name}";
>> Junio>                }
>> Junio>        }
>> Junio>         return "$my_uri?" . esc_param(join(';', @result));
>> Junio> }
>> 
>> If you already depend on the LWP package, then the "URI" module
>> does precisely what you're reinventing.
>> 
>> my $uri = URI->new("http://host/base/path")
>> $uri->query_form(\%params);
>> my $result = $uri->as_string;
>> 
>> And I'd rely on Gisle Aas's experience about constructing these things
>> far more than the thread I've just witnessed here. :)
> 
> First, I'd rather not introduce new dependency to git (and I think Junio
> would agree). Second, more important, we do _parameters processing_,
> it means renaming parameters (e.g. 'file_name' in params is 'p' in CGI URI),
> in the future perhaps passing project via PATH_INFO not in query string,
> and sorting the CGI parameters.
> 
> So it wouldn't be as easy as writing 
>         $uri->query_form(\%params); 
>         return $uri->as_string;
> or as 
>         return "$my_uri?" . esc_param(join(";", "$_=$params{$_}") keys %params)'.

Third, read comment to esc_param:

        # quote unsafe chars, but keep the slash, even when it's not
        # correct, but quoted slashes look too horrible in bookmarks

I assume that URI module methods do not keep slash...
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-22 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-21 15:39 [RFD] gitweb: href() function to generate URLs for CGI Jakub Narebski
2006-08-21 15:52 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-08-21 18:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-21 18:38   ` Jakub Narebski
2006-08-22  7:09     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-22  8:18       ` Jakub Narebski
2006-08-22  8:55         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-22  9:34           ` Jakub Narebski
2006-08-22 10:47           ` Jakub Narebski
2006-08-22 22:26             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-22 22:39               ` Jakub Narebski
2006-08-22 18:35           ` Randal L. Schwartz
2006-08-22 19:55             ` Jakub Narebski
2006-08-22 20:01               ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-08-22 22:21                 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-22 17:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] gitweb: Drop the href() params which keys are not in %mapping Jakub Narebski
2006-08-22 17:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] gitweb: Sort CGI parameters returned by href() Jakub Narebski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-21 15:21 [RFD] gitweb: href() function to generate URLs for CGI Jakub Narebski

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