URI encoder/decoder - copied from other repo.

lib/uri/encode_decode.dart

+// Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+/**
+ * Javascript-like URI encode/decode functions.
+ * The documentation here borrows heavily from the original Javascript
+ * doumentation on MDN at:
+ * https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects
+ */
+
+/**
+ * A JavaScript-like URI encoder. Encodes Uniform Resource Identifier [uri]
+ * by replacing each instance of certain characters by one, two, three, or four
+ * escape sequences representing the UTF-8 encoding of the character (will
+ * only be four escape sequences for characters composed of two "surrogate"
+ * characters). This assumes that [uri] is a complete URI, so does not encode
+ * reserved characters that have special meaning in the URI: [:#;,/?:@&=+\$:]
+ * It returns the escaped URI.
+ */
+String encodeUri(String uri) {
+  return _uriEncode(
+    "-_.!~*'()#;,/?:@&=+\$0123456789"
+    "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", uri);
+}
+
+/**
+ * An implementation of JavaScript's decodeURIComponent function.
+ * Decodes a Uniform Resource Identifier [uri] previously created by
+ * encodeURI or by a similar routine. It replaces each escape sequence
+ * in [uri] with the character that it represents. It does not decode
+ * escape sequences that could not have been introduced by encodeURI.
+ * It returns the unescaped URI.
+ */
+String decodeUri(String uri) {
+  return _uriDecode(uri);
+}
+
+/**
+ * A javaScript-like URI component encoder, this encodes a URI
+ * [component] by replacing each instance of certain characters by one,
+ * two, three, or four escape sequences representing the UTF-8 encoding of
+ * the character (will only be four escape sequences for characters composed
+ * of two "surrogate" characters).
+ * To avoid unexpected requests to the server, you should call
+ * encodeURIComponent on any user-entered parameters that will be passed as
+ * part of a URI. For example, a user could type "Thyme &time=again" for a
+ * variable comment. Not using encodeURIComponent on this variable will give
+ * comment=Thyme%20&time=again. Note that the ampersand and the equal sign
+ * mark a new key and value pair. So instead of having a POST comment key
+ * equal to "Thyme &time=again", you have two POST keys, one equal to "Thyme "
+ * and another (time) equal to again.
+ * It returns the escaped string.
+ */
+String encodeUriComponent(String component) {
+  return _uriEncode(
+    "-_.!~*'()0123456789"
+    "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", component);
+}
+
+/**
+ * An implementation of JavaScript's decodeURIComponent function.
+ * Decodes a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) [component] previously
+ * created by encodeURIComponent or by a similar routine.
+ * It returns the unescaped string.
+ */
+String decodeUriComponent(String encodedComponent) {
+  return _uriDecode(encodedComponent);
+}
+
+/**
+ * This is the internal implementation of JavaScript's encodeURI function.
+ * It encodes all characters in the string [text] except for those
+ * that appear in [canonical], and returns the escaped string.
+ */
+String _uriEncode(String canonical, String text) {
+  final String hex = '0123456789ABCDEF';
+  var byteToHex = (int v) => '%${hex[v >> 4]}${hex[v&0xf]}';
+  StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
+  for (int i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
+    if (canonical.indexOf(text[i]) >= 0) {
+      result.add(text[i]);
+    } else {
+      int ch = text.charCodeAt(i);
+      if (ch >= 0xD800 && ch < 0xDC00) {
+        // Low surrogate. We expect a next char high surrogate.
+        ++i;
+        int nextCh = text.length == i ? 0 : text.charCodeAt(i);
+        if (nextCh >= 0xDC00 && nextCh < 0xE000) {
+          // convert the pair to a U+10000 codepoint
+          ch = 0x10000 + ((ch-0xD800) << 10) + (nextCh - 0xDC00);
+        } else {
+          throw new IllegalArgumentException('Malformed URI');
+        }
+      }
+      for (int codepoint in codepointsToUtf8([ch])) {
+        result.add(byteToHex(codepoint));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return result.toString();
+}
+
+/**
+ * Convert a byte (2 character hex sequence) in string [s] starting
+ * at position [pos] to its ordinal value
+ */
+
+int _hexCharPairToByte(String s, int pos) {
+  // An alternative to calling parseInt twice would be to take a
+  // two character substring and call it once, but that may be less
+  // efficient.
+  int d1 = Math.parseInt("0x${s[pos]}");
+  int d2 = Math.parseInt("0x${s[pos+1]}");
+  return d1 * 16 + d2;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A JavaScript-like decodeURI function. It unescapes the string [text] and
+ * returns the unescaped string.
+ */
+String _uriDecode(String text) {
+  StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
+  List<int> codepoints = new List<int>();
+  for (int i = 0; i < text.length;) {
+    String ch = text[i];
+    if (ch != '%') {
+      result.add(ch);
+      i++;
+    } else {
+      codepoints.clear();
+      while (ch == '%') {
+        if (++i > text.length - 2) {
+          throw new IllegalArgumentException('Truncated URI');
+        }
+        codepoints.add(_hexCharPairToByte(text, i));
+        i += 2;
+        if (i == text.length)
+          break;
+        ch = text[i];
+      }
+      result.add(decodeUtf8(codepoints));
+    }
+  }
+  return result.toString();
+}
+