URLs

BaseURL

A base url field is useful if you need to append view names to a url and doesn’t like to check every time if the url ends with a backslash before you append the view name.

Let’s first create the BaseURL field:

>>> from z3c.schema.baseurl import BaseURL
>>> baseURL = BaseURL()

Let’s first check the validation of some common base urls.

>>> baseURL.validate("http://www.python.org/")
>>> baseURL.validate("http://www.python.org/foo/")
>>> baseURL.validate("http://123.123.123.123/")
>>> baseURL.validate("http://123.123.123.123/foo/")

A port specification is also allowed:

>>> baseURL.validate("http://www.python.org:389/")
>>> baseURL.validate("http://www.python.org:389/foo/")

However, a missing backslash is not permitted:

>>> baseURL.validate("http://www.python.org/foo")
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
InvalidBaseURL: http://www.python.org/foo

And a missing protocol is also not permitted:

>>> baseURL.validate("www.python.org/foo/")
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
InvalidBaseURL: www.python.org/foo/

Let’s check some other invalid forms:

>>> baseURL.validate("$www.python.org/")
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
InvalidBaseURL: $www.python.org/

>>> baseURL.validate("333.123.123.123/")
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
InvalidBaseURL: 333.123.123.123/

Let’s also ensure that we can convert to base urls from unicode:

>>> baseURL.fromUnicode("http://www.python.org:389/")
'http://www.python.org:389/'
>>> baseURL.fromUnicode("          http://www.python.org:389/")
'http://www.python.org:389/'
>>> baseURL.fromUnicode("      \n    http://www.python.org:389/\n")
'http://www.python.org:389/'

>>> baseURL.fromUnicode("http://www.pyt hon.org:389/")
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
InvalidBaseURL: http://www.pyt hon.org:389/

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