Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] URI processing (Was Re: Work Left)

[K. G. <kim...@gm...>]

Hi Glyn,

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:12, Glyn Matthews <gly...@gm...> wrote:
>
> I don't know if its worth the hassle of having a distinct class for each
> scheme.  I was thinking about building URIs using directives in a similar
> way to what we have with messages:
>
> boost::network::uri uri;
> uri << scheme("http")
>     << authority("www.boost.org")
>     << path("path")
>     << query("x=5")
>     << fragment("bananas")
>     ;

It looks nice in a way, but I'm not sure how often you start with
components and want to join them into a URI? I think the usual use
case is you have a URI string and want to modify parts of it. But this
API would allow that too, I suppose.

> Is this too simplistic?  Do you see any problems with this approach?

Depending on the variance of URIs, though, this might not be
simplistic enough :-)

I think there may be enough format variance to justify a
directive-based model, rather than just a simple data class, though.
Interesting.

- Kim