Opened 13 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#699 closed enhancement (fixed)

add make-uri constructor to uri-generic and uri-common

Reported by: Moritz Heidkamp Owned by: Ivan Raikov
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: extensions Version: 4.7.x
Keywords: Cc:
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Description

Currently the only constructors for uri-generic and uri-common URI records are uri-reference and absolute-uri. This is slightly inconvenient when constructing a URI from individual components. For example, when starting Spiffy one might want to construct the URI it can be reached by. Currently one has to do something like this:

(update-uri (uri-reference "")
            scheme: (if (secure-connection?) 'https 'http)
            port: (server-port)
            host: (or (server-bind-address)
                      "0.0.0.0"))

Whereas this would be much nicer:

(make-uri scheme: (if (secure-connection?) 'https 'http)
          port: (server-port)
          host: (or (server-bind-address)
                    "0.0.0.0"))

It also seems more complete to have make-uri in those eggs. Attached is a patch that implements it for both eggs in terms of update-uri so as to touch as little code as possible. Feel free to apply it or re-implement it the other way around :-)

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make-uri-for-uri-generic-and-uri-common.patch (1.9 KB) - added by Moritz Heidkamp 13 years ago.

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Change History (8)

Changed 13 years ago by Moritz Heidkamp

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by Ivan Raikov

Thanks for the patch. The implementation of your make-uri seems ok, but there is an existing make-uri (actually make-URI) procedure, which is used internally. I would accept the patch if a different name was used. I suggest uri-from-parts but you are welcome to come up with a better suggestion.

comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by Moritz Heidkamp

Indeed, but there is also an internal procedure update-URI, yet the module exports a different function as update-uri. I would prefer make-uri for consistency with other record types. It's up to you though!

comment:3 in reply to:  2 Changed 12 years ago by Ivan Raikov

You are right, there is quite of bit of case mixup between internal and external procedures, so your patch would not make things worse. I have applied it to uri-generic and made a new release, 2.36.

Replying to syn:

Indeed, but there is also an internal procedure update-URI, yet the module exports a different function as update-uri. I would prefer make-uri for consistency with other record types. It's up to you though!

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by felix winkelmann

Milestone: 4.8.0

comment:5 Changed 12 years ago by Moritz Heidkamp

Hi Ivan,

thanks for applying the patch! What about the one for {{uri-common}} though? Do you object to its application or did you just overlook it?

comment:6 Changed 12 years ago by Moritz Heidkamp

I just ran into make-uri missing from uri-common again so I thought I'd check back on the issue :-)

comment:7 Changed 12 years ago by sjamaan

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Sorry about that, I had completely forgotten about it. I've added some tests to both uri-generic and uri-common for the constructor. This found a bug which I fixed (if you passed no path to the constructor, it failed). I've released uri-generic 2.37 and uri-common 1.3 so I'm closing this ticket.

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