cpp implementation of URLdecode

DESCRIPTION

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Version: 0.1.0.9000
 Authors@R: 
     c(person("David", "Schoch", , "[email protected]", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2952-4812")),
-      person("Chung-hong", "Chan", role = c("ctb"), email = "[email protected]",
+      person("Chung-hong", "Chan", role = c("aut"), email = "[email protected]",
 	   comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6232-7530"))
      )
 Description: A wrapper for ada-url, a WHATWG-compliant and fast URL parser written in modern C++. Also contains auxiliary functions to extract public suffix.

NAMESPACE

@@ -20,5 +20,6 @@ export(ada_has_port)
 export(ada_has_search)
 export(ada_url_parse)
 export(public_suffix)
+export(url_decode)
 importFrom(Rcpp,sourceCpp)
 useDynLib(adaR, .registration = TRUE)

NEWS.md

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 # adaR 0.1.0.9000
 
 * split C++ files h/t Chung-hong Chan (@chainsawriot)
-* add support for public suffix extraction 
+* add support for public suffix extraction #14
+* add support for punnycode #18
 
 # adaR 0.1.0
 

R/RcppExports.R

@@ -77,3 +77,15 @@ Rcpp_ada_get_protocol <- function(input_vec, length_vec) {
     .Call(`_adaR_Rcpp_ada_get_protocol`, input_vec, length_vec)
 }
 
+#' Function to percent-decode characters in URLs
+#'
+#' Similar to [utils::URLdecode]
+#'
+#' @param url a character vector
+#' @export
+#' @examples
+#' url_decode("Hello%20World")
+url_decode <- function(url) {
+    .Call(`_adaR_url_decode`, url)
+}
+

R/parse.R

@@ -22,10 +22,13 @@ ada_url_parse <- function(url, decode = TRUE) {
     df
 }
 
-## NA-aware utils::URLdecode, hopefully without great performance impact
+## NA/NULL-aware utils::URLdecode, hopefully without great performance impact
 .URLdecode <- function(URL) {
+    if (is.null(URL)) {
+        return(character(0))
+    }
     non_na_index <- which(!is.na(URL))
-    URL[non_na_index] <- utils::URLdecode(URL[non_na_index])
+    URL[non_na_index] <- url_decode(URL[non_na_index])
     URL[!non_na_index] <- NA_character_
     return(URL)
 }

src/RcppExports.cpp

@@ -238,6 +238,17 @@ BEGIN_RCPP
     return rcpp_result_gen;
 END_RCPP
 }
+// url_decode
+CharacterVector url_decode(CharacterVector url);
+RcppExport SEXP _adaR_url_decode(SEXP urlSEXP) {
+BEGIN_RCPP
+    Rcpp::RObject rcpp_result_gen;
+    Rcpp::RNGScope rcpp_rngScope_gen;
+    Rcpp::traits::input_parameter< CharacterVector >::type url(urlSEXP);
+    rcpp_result_gen = Rcpp::wrap(url_decode(url));
+    return rcpp_result_gen;
+END_RCPP
+}
 
 static const R_CallMethodDef CallEntries[] = {
     {"_adaR_Rcpp_ada_parse", (DL_FUNC) &_adaR_Rcpp_ada_parse, 2},
@@ -259,6 +270,7 @@ static const R_CallMethodDef CallEntries[] = {
     {"_adaR_Rcpp_ada_get_pathname", (DL_FUNC) &_adaR_Rcpp_ada_get_pathname, 2},
     {"_adaR_Rcpp_ada_get_search", (DL_FUNC) &_adaR_Rcpp_ada_get_search, 2},
     {"_adaR_Rcpp_ada_get_protocol", (DL_FUNC) &_adaR_Rcpp_ada_get_protocol, 2},
+    {"_adaR_url_decode", (DL_FUNC) &_adaR_url_decode, 1},
     {NULL, NULL, 0}
 };
 

src/urldecode.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#include <Rcpp.h>
+
+using namespace Rcpp;
+
+//' Function to percent-decode characters in URLs
+//'
+//' Similar to [utils::URLdecode]
+//'
+//' @param url a character vector
+//' @export
+//' @examples
+//' url_decode("Hello%20World")
+// [[Rcpp::export]]
+CharacterVector url_decode(CharacterVector url) {
+  return sapply(url, [](const String& u) {
+    std::string input = u;
+    std::string output;
+    size_t i = 0;
+
+    while (i < input.length()) {
+      if (input[i] != '%') {
+        output += input[i];
+        i++;
+      } else {
+        unsigned int value;
+        sscanf(input.substr(i + 1, 2).c_str(), "%x", &value);
+        output += static_cast<char>(value);
+        i += 3;
+      }
+    }
+
+    return output;
+  });
+}

tests/testthat/test-urldecode.R

@@ -12,3 +12,9 @@ test_that("Integration #21", {
     res <- adaR::ada_url_parse(c("https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=\u30c9\u30a4\u30c4", NA, "https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=\u30c9\u30a4\u30c4"))
     expect_equal(res$search, c("?q=\u30c9\u30a4\u30c4", NA_character_, "?q=\u30c9\u30a4\u30c4"))
 })
+
+test_that("cpp implementation is correct", {
+    enc <- "https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.de%2Fmaps%2F%4047.6647302%2C9.1389738%2C11z%3Fentry%3Dttu"
+    dec <- "https://www.google.de/maps/@47.6647302,9.1389738,11z?entry=ttu"
+    expect_equal(url_decode(enc), dec)
+})