boost::urls::decode_view

A reference to a valid, percent-encoded string

Synopsis

Declared in header <boost/url/decode_view.hpp>

class decode_view;

Types

Name

Description

const_iterator

An iterator of constant, decoded characters.

const_reference

The reference type

difference_type

The signed integer type

iterator

An iterator of constant, decoded characters.

reference

The reference type

size_type

The unsigned integer type

value_type

The value type

Member Functions

Name

Description

back

Return the last character

begin

Return an iterator to the beginning

compare

Return the result of comparing to another string

decode_view [constructor]

Constructor

empty

Return true if the string is empty

end

Return an iterator to the end

ends_with

Checks if the string ends with the given prefix

find

Finds the first occurrence of character in this view

front

Return the first character

options

Return the decoding options

remove_prefix

Remove the first characters

remove_suffix

Remove the last characters

rfind

Finds the first occurrence of character in this view

size

Return the number of decoded characters

starts_with

Checks if the string begins with the given prefix

Friends

Name

Description

operator!=

Compare two decode views for inequality

operator<

Compare two decode views for less than

operator<<

Format the string with percent-decoding applied to the output stream

operator⇐

Compare two decode views for less than or equal

operator==

Compare two decode views for equality

operator>

Compare two decode views for greater than

operator>=

Compare two decode views for greater than or equal

Description

These views reference strings in parts of URLs or other components that are percent-encoded. The special characters (those not in the allowed character set) are stored as three character escapes that consist of a percent sign ('%%') followed by a two-digit hexadecimal number of the corresponding unescaped character code, which may be part of a UTF-8 code point depending on the context.

The view refers to the original character buffer and only decodes escaped sequences when needed. In particular these operations perform percent-decoding automatically without the need to allocate memory:

  • Iteration of the string

  • Accessing the encoded character buffer

  • Comparison to encoded or plain strings

These objects can only be constructed from strings that have a valid percent-encoding, otherwise construction fails. The caller is responsible for ensuring that the lifetime of the character buffer from which the view is constructed extends unmodified until the view is no longer accessed.

The following operators are supported between

decode_view and any object that is convertible to core::string_view

bool operator==( decode_view, decode_view ) noexcept;
bool operator!=( decode_view, decode_view ) noexcept;
bool operator<=( decode_view, decode_view ) noexcept;
bool operator< ( decode_view, decode_view ) noexcept;
bool operator> ( decode_view, decode_view ) noexcept;
bool operator>=( decode_view, decode_view ) noexcept;