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

From: Ivan Matek (libbooze_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-10-15 03:32:23

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 11:00 PM Robert Ramey via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> 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.
>
> I think maybe even better is to take some other implementations from other
languages(if they exist), maybe C# or Rust have official/unofficial
equivalents of Boost.URL so one could do a "diff" against them.