path: root/accounts/url.go

// Copyright 2017 The go-ethereum Authors
// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
//
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package accounts

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "errors"
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

// URL represents the canonical identification URL of a wallet or account.
//
// It is a simplified version of url.URL, with the important limitations (which
// are considered features here) that it contains value-copyable components only,
// as well as that it doesn't do any URL encoding/decoding of special characters.
//
// The former is important to allow an account to be copied without leaving live
// references to the original version, whereas the latter is important to ensure
// one single canonical form opposed to many allowed ones by the RFC 3986 spec.
//
// As such, these URLs should not be used outside of the scope of an Ethereum
// wallet or account.
type URL struct {
    Scheme string // Protocol scheme to identify a capable account backend
    Path   string // Path for the backend to identify a unique entity
}

// parseURL converts a user supplied URL into the accounts specific structure.
func parseURL(url string) (URL, error) {
    parts := strings.Split(url, "://")
    if len(parts) != 2 || parts[0] == "" {
        return URL{}, errors.New("protocol scheme missing")
    }
    return URL{
        Scheme: parts[0],
        Path:   parts[1],
    }, nil
}

// String implements the stringer interface.
func (u URL) String() string {
    if u.Scheme != "" {
        return fmt.Sprintf("%s://%s", u.Scheme, u.Path)
    }
    return u.Path
}

// TerminalString implements the log.TerminalStringer interface.
func (u URL) TerminalString() string {
    url := u.String()
    if len(url) > 32 {
        return url[:31] + "…"
    }
    return url
}

// MarshalJSON implements the json.Marshaller interface.
func (u URL) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
    return json.Marshal(u.String())
}

// Cmp compares x and y and returns:
//
//   -1 if x <  y
//    0 if x == y
//   +1 if x >  y
//
func (u URL) Cmp(url URL) int {
    if u.Scheme == url.Scheme {
        return strings.Compare(u.Path, url.Path)
    }
    return strings.Compare(u.Scheme, url.Scheme)
}