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url: expose pathToFileURL and fileURLToPath #22506
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@@ -880,6 +880,32 @@ console.log(url.domainToUnicode('xn--iñvalid.com')); | |
// Prints an empty string | ||
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### url.fileURLToPath(url) | ||
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* `url` {URL | string} The file URL string or URL object to convert to a path. | ||
* Returns: {URL} The fully-resolved platform-specific Node.js file path. | ||
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This function ensures the correct decodings of percent-encoded characters as | ||
well as ensuring a cross-platform valid absolute path string. | ||
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When converting from URL to path, the following common errors can occur: | ||
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```js | ||
// '/C:/path/' instead of 'C:\path\' (Windows) | ||
new URL('file:///C:/path/').pathname; | ||
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// '/foo.txt' instead of '\\nas\foo.txt' (Windows) | ||
new URL('file://nas/foo.txt').pathname; | ||
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// '/%E4%BD%A0%E5%A5%BD.txt' instead of '/你好.txt' (POSIX) | ||
new URL('file:///你好.txt').pathname; | ||
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// '/hello%20world.txt' instead of '/hello world.txt' (POSIX) | ||
new URL('file:///hello world.txt').pathname; | ||
``` | ||
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where using `url.fileURLToPath` we can get the correct results above. | ||
There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. We usually add parentheses to functions/methods as per the style guide, so: |
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### url.format(URL[, options]) | ||
<!-- YAML | ||
added: v7.6.0 | ||
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For example, the following errors can occur when converting from paths to URLs: | ||
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```js | ||
// throws for missing schema (posix) | ||
// throws for missing schema (POSIX) | ||
// (in Windows the drive letter is detected as the protocol) | ||
new URL(__filename); | ||
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// 'file:///foo' instead of the correct 'file:///foo%231' (posix) | ||
// 'file:///foo' instead of the correct 'file:///foo%231' (POSIX) | ||
new URL('./foo#1', 'file:///'); | ||
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// 'file:///nas/foo.txt' instead of the correct 'file:///foo.txt' (posix) | ||
// 'file:///nas/foo.txt' instead of the correct 'file:///foo.txt' (POSIX) | ||
new URL(`file://${'//nas/foo.txt'}`); | ||
There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. In this and the next example, template strings with string interpolation seem confusingly redundant. Maybe interpolate previously defined variables? There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. I quite like having these be scannable as single-line cases, initially I wrote |
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// 'file:///some/path%' instead of the correct 'file:///some/path%25' (posix) | ||
new URL(`sfile:${'/some/path%.js'}`); | ||
``` | ||
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where using `pathToFileURL` we can get the correct results above. | ||
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### url.fileURLToPath(url) | ||
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* `url` {URL} | {string} The file URL string or URL object to convert to a path. | ||
* Returns: {URL} The fully-resolved platform-specific Node.js file path. | ||
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This function ensures the correct decodings of percent-encoded characters as | ||
well as ensuring a cross-platform valid absolute path string. | ||
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When converting from URL to path, the following common errors can occur: | ||
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```js | ||
// '/C:/path/' instead of 'C:\path\' (Windows) | ||
new URL('file:///C:/path/').pathname; | ||
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// '/foo.txt' instead of '\\nas\foo.txt' (Windows) | ||
new URL('file://nas/foo.txt').pathname; | ||
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// '/%E4%BD%A0%E5%A5%BD.txt' instead of '/你好.txt' (posix) | ||
new URL('file:///你好.txt').pathname; | ||
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// '/hello%20world.txt' instead of '/hello world.txt' (posix) | ||
new URL('file:///hello world.txt').pathname; | ||
// 'file:///some/path%' instead of the correct 'file:///some/path%25' (POSIX) | ||
new URL(`file:${'/some/path%.js'}`); | ||
``` | ||
There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. Can you please add an example that uses the new API instead? |
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where using `fileURLToPath` we can get the correct results above. | ||
where using `url.pathToFileURL` we can get the correct results above. | ||
There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. Ditto) |
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## Legacy URL API | ||
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actually whoops this should be
{string}
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Ahhh... thank you!