Re: Create a NSURL as a way to validate urls - not working
Re: Create a NSURL as a way to validate urls - not working
- Subject: Re: Create a NSURL as a way to validate urls - not working
- From: Mike Abdullah <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:19:08 +0100
> On 3 Mar 2015, at 01:57, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Mar 2, 2015, at 3:55 PM, Juanjo Conti <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
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>> Ok, I wanted to validate that the url is an absolute one. Is there
>> something in Swift standard lib to do this?
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> I typically check whether url.scheme is a non-nil, non-empty string. You may also want to check the scheme if you need to restrict input to HTTP URLs, for instance. (For example, “a:b” is a perfectly valid absolute URL, but probably not one your app will find useful.) Keep in mind that URL schemes are case-insensitive, so “HTTP:” means the same as “http:”.
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> Also, this has nothing to do with the Swift library. NSURL is part of the Foundation framework, so this is independent of whether you’re using Swift or Objective-C.
I’d say this is pretty good advice. The NSURL docs also used to mention an alternative, that you could test the -resourceSpecifier to see if it began with // as a pretty good test, but that’s no longer mentioned, which is intriguing.
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