We recently added append_query, so I am in favor of an append_path. PR welcome!
On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 21:58 aaron....@gmail.com <aaron.ren...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have repeatedly run into scenarios when building/testing API clients > where I want to join a path onto a base url. The base_url could be > configurable (and maybe read from an environment variable) and the user may > or may not append a trailing slash to it. Here's the problem I'm trying to > solve: > > Base URI: http://example.com/business_1 > Path to append: /foo > Desired result: http://example.com/business_1/foo > > Base URI: http://example.com/business_1/ # Includes trailing slash > Path to append: /foo > Desired result: http://example.com/business_1/foo > > Base URI: http://example.com > Path to append: /foo > Desired result: http://example.com/foo > > Base URI: http://example.com/ # Includes trailing slash > Path to append: /foo > Desired result: http://example.com/foo > > I don't see a helper to quickly do this and URI.merge/2 replaces the path > completely. What do you think about `URI.join_path/2`? You should be able > to do something like this. > > iex> URI.join_path("http://example.com/foo/";, "/bar") |> to_string() > "http://example.com/foo/bar"; > > I guess it would probably leave any query string variables untouched > > iex> URI.join_path("http://example.com/foo/?var1=true";, "/bar") |> > to_string() > "http://example.com/foo/bar?var=1"; > > And maybe it would allow you to join multiple fragments like Path.join/1: > > iex> URI.join_path("http://example.com/foo/";, ["bar", "baz"]) |> > to_string() > "http://example.com/foo/bar/baz"; > > What do you think? Is there a better way to do this that I haven't figured > out? > > Aaron Rener > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/3573e832-c6d5-4154-95b4-b857c3850319n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/3573e832-c6d5-4154-95b4-b857c3850319n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4Liv8qUWmSZFXwDQZqZjQ2FK5CWwQZ%2B1ym%3DO%3DUnCSw_GQ%40mail.gmail.com.
