class KURL

Represent and parse a URL. More...

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Detailed Description

Represent and parse a URL.

A prototypical URL looks like:


   protocol:/user:password@hostname:port/path/to/file.ext#reference

KURL has some restrictions regarding the path encoding. KURL works internally with the decoded path and and encoded query. For example,


 http://localhost/cgi-bin/test%20me.pl?cmd=Hello%20you

would result in a decoded path "/cgi-bin/test me.pl" and in the encoded query "?cmd=Hello%20you". Since path is internally always encoded you may not use "%00" in the path, although this is OK for the query.

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 KURL ()

KURL

Construct an empty URL.

 ~KURL ()

~KURL

destruktor

 KURL ( const QString& url, int encoding_hint = 0 )

KURL

Usual constructor, to construct from a string.

Parameters:
urlA URL, not a filename. If the URL does not have a protocol part, "file:" is assumed. It is dangerous to feed unix filenames into this function, this will work most of the time but not always. For example "/home/Torben%20Weis" will be considered a URL pointing to the file "/home/Torben Weis" instead of to the file "/home/Torben%20Weis". This means that if you have a usual UNIX like path you should not use this constructor. Instead create an empty url and set the path by using setPath().
encoding_hintReserved, should be 0.

 KURL ( const char * url, int encoding_hint = 0 )

KURL

Constructor taking a char * url, which is an _encoded_ representation of the URL, exactly like the usual constructor. This is useful when then URL, in its encoded form, is strictly ascii.

 KURL ( const KURL& u )

KURL

Copy constructor

 KURL ( const QUrl &u )

KURL

Convert from a QUrl.

 KURL ( const KURL& _baseurl, const QString& _rel_url, int encoding_hint=0 )

KURL

Constructor allowing relative URLs.

Parameters:
_baseurlThe base url.
_rel_urlA relative or absolute URL. If this is an absolute URL then _baseurl will be ignored. If this is a relative URL it will be combined with _baseurl. Note that _rel_url should be encoded too, in any case. So do NOT pass a path here (use setPath or addPath instead).
encoding_hintReserved, should be 0.

QString  protocol ()

protocol

[const]

Retrieve the protocol for the URL (i.e., file, http, etc.).

void  setProtocol ( const QString& _txt )

setProtocol

Set the protocol for the URL (i.e., file, http, etc.)

QString  user ()

user

[const]

Retrieve the decoded user name (login, user id, ...) included in the URL.

void  setUser ( const QString& _txt )

setUser

Set the user name (login, user id, ...) included the URL.

Special characters in the user name will appear encoded in the URL.

bool  hasUser ()

hasUser

[const]

Test to see if this URL has a user name included in it.

QString  pass ()

pass

[const]

Retrieve the decoded password (corresponding to user()) included in the URL.

void  setPass ( const QString& _txt )

setPass

Set the password (corresponding to user()) included in the URL.

Special characters in the password will appear encoded in the URL.

bool  hasPass ()

hasPass

[const]

Test to see if this URL has a password included in it.

QString  host ()

host

[const]

Retrieve the decoded hostname included in the URL.

void  setHost ( const QString& _txt )

setHost

Set the hostname included in the URL.

Special characters in the hostname will appear encoded in the URL.

bool  hasHost ()

hasHost

[const]

Test to see if this URL has a hostname included in it.

unsigned short int  port ()

port

[const]

Retrieve the port number included in the URL. If there is no port number specified in the URL, returns 0.

void  setPort ( unsigned short int _p )

setPort

Set the port number included in the URL.

QString  path ()

path

[const]

Returns: The current decoded path. This does not include the query.

QString  path ( int _trailing )

path

[const]

Parameters:
_trailingMay be ( -1, 0 +1 ). -1 strips a trailing '/', +1 adds a trailing '/' if there is none yet and 0 returns the path unchanged. If the URL has no path, then no '/' is added anyway. And on the other side: If the path is "/", then this character won't be stripped. Reason: "ftp://weis@host" means something completely different than "ftp://weis@host/". So adding or stripping the '/' would really alter the URL, while "ftp://host/path" and "ftp://host/path/" mean the same directory.

Returns: The current decoded path. This does not include the query.

void  setPath ( const QString& path )

setPath

path This is considered to be decoded. This means: %3f does not become decoded and the ? does not indicate the start of the query part. The query is not changed by this function.

bool  hasPath ()

hasPath

[const]

Test to see if this URL has a path is included in it.

void  cleanPath ()

cleanPath

Removes all multiple directory separators ('/') and resolves any "." or ".." found in the path. Calls QDir::cleanDirPath but saves the trailing slash if any.

void  cleanPath (bool cleanDirSeparator)

cleanPath

Same as above except it takes a flag that allows you to ignore the clean up of the multiple directory separators.

Some servers seem not to like the removal of extra '/' eventhough it is against the specification in RFC 2396.

void  setEncodedPathAndQuery ( const QString& _txt, int encoding_hint = 0 )

setEncodedPathAndQuery

This is useful for HTTP. It looks first for '?' and decodes then. The encoded path is the concatenation of the current path and the query.

Parameters:
encoding_hintReserved, should be 0.

QString  encodedPathAndQuery ( int _trailing = 0, bool _no_empty_path = false, int encoding_hint = 0)

encodedPathAndQuery

[const]

Parameters:
_no_empty_pathIf set to true then an empty path is substituted by "/".
encoding_hintReserved, should be 0.

Returns: The concatenation if the encoded path , '?' and the encoded query.

void  setQuery ( const QString& _txt, int encoding_hint = 0)

setQuery

The query should start with a '?'. If it doesn't '?' is prepended.

Parameters:
_txtThis is considered to be encoded. This has a good reason: The query may contain the 0 character.
encoding_hintReserved, should be 0.

QString  query ()

query

[const]

Returns: The encoded query. This has a good reason: The query may contain the 0 character. If a query is present it always starts with a '?'. A single '?' means an empty query. An empty string means no query.

QString  ref ()

ref

[const]

The reference is never decoded automatically.

void  setRef ( const QString& _txt )

setRef

Set the reference part (everything after '#').

Parameters:
_txtis considered encoded.

bool  hasRef ()

hasRef

[const]

Returns: true if the reference part of the URL is not empty. In a URL like http://www.kde.org/kdebase.tar#tar:/README it would return true, too.

QString  htmlRef ()

htmlRef

[const]

Returns: The HTML-style reference.

QString  encodedHtmlRef ()

encodedHtmlRef

[const]

Returns: The HTML-style reference in its original form.

void  setHTMLRef ( const QString& _ref )

setHTMLRef

Set the HTML-style reference.

Parameters:
_refThis is considered to be not encoded in contrast to setRef()

See also: htmlRef()

bool  hasHTMLRef ()

hasHTMLRef

[const]

Returns: true if the URL has an HTML-style reference.

See also: htmlRef()

bool  isValid ()

isValid

[const]

Returns: false if the URL is malformed. This function does not test whether sub URLs are well-formed, too.

bool  isMalformed ()

isMalformed

[const]

bool  isLocalFile ()

isLocalFile

[const]

Returns: true if the file is a plain local file and has no filter protocols attached to it.

bool  hasSubURL ()

hasSubURL

[const]

Returns: true if the file has at least one sub URL. Use split() to get the sub URLs.

void  addPath ( const QString& _txt )

addPath

Add to the current path. Assumes that the current path is a directory. _txt is appended to the current path. The function adds '/' if needed while concatenating. This means it does not matter whether the current path has a trailing '/' or not. If there is none, it becomes appended. If _txt has a leading '/' then this one is stripped.

Parameters:
_txtThis is considered to be decoded

void  setFileName ( const QString&_txt )

setFileName

In comparison to addPath() this function does not assume that the current path is a directory. This is only assumed if the current path ends with '/'.

Any reference is reset.

Parameters:
_txtThis is considered to be decoded. If the current path ends with '/' then _txt ist just appended, otherwise all text behind the last '/' in the current path is erased and _txt is appended then. It does not matter whether _txt starts with '/' or not.

QString  fileName ( bool _ignore_trailing_slash_in_path = true )

fileName

[const]

Parameters:
_ignore_trailing_slash_in_pathThis tells whether a trailing '/' should be ignored. This means that the function would return "torben" for file:/hallo/torben/ and file:/hallo/torben. If the flag is set to false, then everything behind the last '/' is considered to be the filename.

Returns: The filename of the current path. The returned string is decoded.

QString  filename ( bool _ignore_trailing_slash_in_path = true )

filename

[const]

QString  directory ( bool _strip_trailing_slash_from_result = true, bool _ignore_trailing_slash_in_path = true )

directory

[const]

Parameters:
_strip_trailing_slash_from_resulttells whether the returned result should end with '/' or not. If the path is empty or just "/" then this flag has no effect.
_ignore_trailing_slash_in_pathmeans that file:/hallo/torben and file:/hallo/torben/" would both return /hallo/ or /hallo depending on the other flag

Returns: The directory part of the current path. Everything between the last and the second last '/' is returned. For example file:/hallo/torben/ would return "/hallo/torben/" while file:/hallo/torben would return "hallo/". The returned string is decoded.

bool  cd ( const QString& _dir )

cd

Change directory by descending into the given directory. It is assumed the current URL represents a directory. If dir starts with a "/" the current URL will be "protocol://host/dir" otherwise _dir will be appended to the path. _dir can be ".." This function won't strip protocols. That means that when you are in file:/dir/dir2/my.tgz#tar:/ and you do cd("..") you will still be in file:/dir/dir2/my.tgz#tar:/

Returns: true

QString  url ( int _trailing = 0 )

url

[const]

Parameters:
_trailingThis may be ( -1, 0 +1 ). -1 strips a trailing '/' from the path, +1 adds a trailing '/' if there is none yet and 0 returns the path unchanged.

Returns: The complete URL, with all escape sequences intact. Example: http://localhost:8080/test.cgi?test=hello%20world&name=fred

QString  url ( int _trailing, int encoding_hint )

url

[const]

Parameters:
_trailingThis may be ( -1, 0 +1 ). -1 strips a trailing '/' from the path, +1 adds a trailing '/' if there is none yet and 0 returns the path unchanged.
encoding_hintThe charset to use for encoding (see QFont::Charset).

Returns: The complete URL, with all escape sequences intact, encoded in a given charset. This is used in particular for encoding URLs in UTF-8 before using them in a drag and drop operation.

QString  prettyURL ( int _trailing = 0)

prettyURL

[const]

Returns: A human readable URL, with no non-necessary encodings/escaped characters. Example: http://localhost:8080/test.cgi?test=hello world&name=fred

bool  isEmpty ()

isEmpty

[const]

Test to see if the KURL is empty.

KURL  upURL ( )

upURL

[const]

This function is useful to implement the "Up" button in a file manager for example. cd() never strips a sub-protocol. That means that if you are in file:/home/x.tgz#gzip:/#tar:/ and hit the up button you expect to see file:/home. The algorithm tries to go up on the right-most URL. If that is not possible it strips the right most URL. It continues stripping URLs.

KURL&  operator= ( const KURL& _u )

operator=

KURL&  operator= ( const QString& _url )

operator=

KURL&  operator= ( const char * _url )

operator=

KURL&  operator= ( const QUrl & u )

operator=

bool  operator== ( const KURL& _u )

operator==

[const]

bool  operator== ( const QString& _u )

operator==

[const]

bool  operator!= ( const KURL& _u )

operator!=

[const]

bool  operator!= ( const QString& _u )

operator!=

[const]

bool  cmp ( const KURL &u, bool ignore_trailing = false )

cmp

[const]

Compare this url with u

Parameters:
ignore_trailingset to true to ignore trailing '/' characters.

Returns: true if both urls are the same

See also: operator==., This, function, should, be, used, if, you, want, to, ignore, trailing, '/', characters.

bool  isParentOf ( const KURL& u )

isParentOf

[const]

Returns: true if this url is a parent of u (or the same URL as u) For instance, ftp://host/dir/ is a parent of ftp://host/dir/subdir/subsubdir/.

List  split ( const QString& _url )

split

[static]

Splits nested URLs like file:/home/weis/kde.tgz#gzip:/#tar:/kdebase A URL like http://www.kde.org#tar:/kde/README.hml#ref1 will be split in http://www.kde.org and tar:/kde/README.html#ref1. That means in turn that "#ref1" is an HTML-style reference and not a new sub URL. Since HTML-style references mark a certain position in a document this reference is appended to every URL. The idea behind this is that browsers, for example, only look at the first URL while the rest is not of interest to them.

Parameters:
_urlThe URL that has to be split.

Returns: An empty list on error or the list of split URLs.

List  split ( const KURL& _url )

split

[static]

A convenience function.

KURL  join ( const List& _list )

join

[static]

Reverses split(). Only the first URL may have a reference. This reference is considered to be HTML-like and is appended at the end of the resulting joined URL.

QString  encode_string (const QString &str, int encoding_hint = 0)

encode_string

[static]

Convenience function

Convert unicoded string to local encoding and use %-style encoding for all common delimiters / non-ascii characters.

Parameters:
strString to encode
encoding_hintReserved, should be 0.

QString  encode_string_no_slash (const QString &str, int encoding_hint = 0)

encode_string_no_slash

[static]

Convenience function

Convert unicoded string to local encoding and use %-style encoding for all common delimiters / non-ascii characters as well as the slash '/'.

Parameters:
strString to encode
encoding_hintReserved, should be 0.

QString  decode_string (const QString &str, int encoding_hint = 0)

decode_string

[static]

Convenience function

Decode %-style encoding and convert from local encoding to unicode.

Revers of encode_string()

Parameters:
strString to decode
encoding_hintReserved, should be 0.

bool  isRelativeURL (const QString &_url)

isRelativeURL

[static]

Convenience function

Returns whether '_url' is likely to be a "relative" URL instead of an "absolute" URL.

Parameters:
_urlURL to examine

Returns: true when the URL is likely to be "relative", false otherwise.

void  reset ()

reset

[protected]

void  parse ( const QString& _url, int encoding_hint = 0)

parse

[protected]