/*****************************************************************************
 * vlc_url.h: URL related macros
 *****************************************************************************
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 * Authors: Christophe Massiot <massiot@via.ecp.fr>
 *          Rémi Denis-Courmont <rem # videolan.org>
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#ifndef VLC_URL_H
# define VLC_URL_H

/**
 * \file
 * This file defines functions for manipulating URL in vlc
 *
 * \ingroup strings
 * @{
 */

/**
 * Converts local path to URL.
 *
 * Builds a URL representation from a local UTF-8 null-terminated file path.
 *
 * @param path file path
 * @param scheme URI scheme to use (default is auto: "file", "fd" or "smb")
 * @return a heap-allocated URI string on success
 * or NULL in case of error (errno will be set accordingly)
 */
VLC_API char *vlc_path2uri(const char *path, const char *scheme) VLC_MALLOC;

/**
 * Converts a URI to a local path.
 *
 * Builds a local path (UTF-8-encoded null-terminated string) from a URI if
 * the URI scheme allows.
 *
 * @param url URI
 * @return a heap-allocated string or success
 * or NULL on error
 */
VLC_API char *vlc_uri2path(const char *url) VLC_MALLOC;

/**
 * Decodes an URI component in place.
 *
 * Decodes one null-terminated UTF-8 URI component to aa null-terminated UTF-8
 * string in place.
 *
 * See also vlc_uri_decode_duplicate() for the not-in-place variant.
 *
 * \warning <b>This function does NOT decode entire URIs.</b>
 * URI can only be decoded (and encoded) one component at a time
 * (e.g. the host name, one directory, the file name).
 * Complete URIs are always "encoded" (or they are syntaxically invalid).
 * See IETF RFC3986, especially §2.4 for details.
 *
 * \note URI encoding is <b>different</b> from Javascript escaping. Especially,
 * white spaces and Unicode non-ASCII code points are encoded differently.
 *
 * \param str null-terminated component
 * \return str is returned on success. NULL if str was not properly encoded.
 */
VLC_API char *vlc_uri_decode(char *str);

/**
 * Decodes an URI component.
 *
 * See also vlc_uri_decode() for the in-place variant.
 *
 * \return a heap-allocated string on success or NULL on error.
 */
VLC_API char *vlc_uri_decode_duplicate(const char *str) VLC_MALLOC;

/**
 * Encodes a URI component.
 *
 * Substitutes URI-unsafe, URI delimiters and non-ASCII characters into their
 * URI-encoded URI-safe representation. See also IETF RFC3986 §2.
 *
 * @param str nul-terminated UTF-8 representation of the component.
 * @note Obviously, a URI containing nul bytes cannot be passed.
 * @return heap-allocated string, or NULL if out of memory.
 */
VLC_API char *vlc_uri_encode(const char *str) VLC_MALLOC;

/** @} */

struct vlc_url_t
{
    char *psz_protocol;
    char *psz_username;
    char *psz_password;
    char *psz_host;
    unsigned i_port;
    char *psz_path;
    char *psz_option;

    char *psz_buffer; /* to be freed */
};

VLC_API void vlc_UrlParse (vlc_url_t *, const char *);
VLC_API void vlc_UrlClean (vlc_url_t *);

#endif