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

[Glyn M. <gly...@gm...>]

Hi,

2008/10/7 Kim Gräsman <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.


Yeah, you could always accept a string in the constructor arguments:
boost::network::uri uri("http//www.boost.org/path?x=5#bananas");

Or:
boost::network::uri uri("http//www.boost.org/path");
uri << query("x=5") << query("y=6");

Or:
boost::network::uri boost_org("http//www.boost.org/");
boost::network uri;
uri << boost_org << path("path") << query_param("x", 5);

I think the directives can be considered as helpers, not really as *the* way
of building URIs.  Building URIs from strings will be most common.

G