Re: Boost.URL: Something Wicked This Way Comes!

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-10-14 20:54:45

On 10/14/21 11:38 AM, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 11:35 AM Robert Ramey via Boost
> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Too me, all this argues for the usage of boost spirit as a url parser.
> 
> Never going to happen. I would never take a dependency on Spirit for
> anything network related or that will have security reviews. And users
> don't want this dependency either.

Hmmm - how about this idea.  Create all your tests and examples first. 
Basically this will consist of a long list of urls - each one more 
elaborate and indecipherable then the last.  Write the spirit parse to 
run in these tests.  When you get all this working, write your 
"hand-rolled" parser (this will take a while) and test against the same 
list of urls and verify that that the parsing matches the spirit 
generated ones.  Then you'll have 2 things:

a) verifiable, maintainable, confirmation that the test parsing is very 
correct
b) test results which show that your hand rolled parser is either 
correct or difficult to prove otherwise.

Robert Ramey
> 
> Thanks
> 
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