Jonathan - Nice work! For everyone (I think this will work easiest - if I'm missing something, let me know):
If you know / use mercurial, go ahead and figure out Bitbucket.org. If not, you might as well figure out Launchpad.net and bazaar. Either way, you should have a Launchpad account. When you have something you want people to look at, test (make sure no one else has problems) - point them to your branch and ask for tests (branch on Launchpad, or branch on Bitbucket - doesn't matter). The "gift" of Bitbucket is you don't need to know / use mercurial: just grab an "on-demand" zip or gzipped-tar, and away you go! When your patch is ready for Massimo, he (I think) will appreciate being able to use merge tools automatically (e.g. kdiff3, ....). Massimo: 2 ways to do that: - take a branch from Launchpad that someone requests be merged; - take a zip from bitbucket.org that someone requests to me merged (no need to use mercurial) IF you use Bitbucket, you should start by forking the web2py mirror (it includes t2 - if you're not using it, take it out of your branch after you "fork"). IF YOU DO THAT, THAT ARCHIVE ALREADY HAS .bzr ---- DO NOT REMOVE THIS - It will make it easy for Massimo to do a test merge on his local machine w/ bazaar. I hope this will make it easy to take contributions from more people without requiring them to learn bazaar if they already know mercurial. Let me know if you have questions, or if this is confusing. Regards, Yarko Just to make sure there's no confusion: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:43 AM, mdipierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > please make them into a single one IS_URL(mode="strict" or "generic") > and email it to me. I will include it in the official distribution. I > do not use bitbucket. bz only. > > Massmo > > On Nov 11, 6:28 am, Jonathan Benn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > It took me a few days but I managed to implement and thoroughly test > > two new validator functions for web2py: > > > > IS_GENERIC_URL: this precisely follows the URL specs (RFC 2396). It > > screens out strings with funny characters, and checks the inputed > > scheme against an authoritative list of all valid schemes. This > > generic function will work to validate ANY protocol that uses URLs. > > > > IS_HTTP_URL: this precisely follows the HTTP protocol URL specs (RFC > > 2616). It only works for http and https, but it handles all the weird > > cases, like relative URLs, abbreviated URLs, ports, localhost, etc. > > etc. It checks to make sure the domain makes sense, and it checks the > > top-level domain against an authoritative list. If you input an > > abbreviated URL, it will prepend "http://"; unless you specify > > otherwise when you construct the validator. > > > > As you might guess, successful validations of IS_HTTP_URL are a subset > > of what IS_GENERIC_URL validates. > > > > It is not possible to create a version of IS_URL that properly > > validates HTTP, FTP and FILE and other schemes, because each scheme is > > mutually exclusive as far as I can tell. They each have their own > > different syntaxes. Therefore, I suggest that for IS_URL we either: > > > > (1) Make it into an "umbrella function" that runs a series of > > validators one after the other, returning the first that is accepted > > > > OR > > > > (2) We rename either IS_HTTP_URL or IS_GENERIC_URL to IS_URL, > > depending on which one best reflects the desired implementation for > > IS_URL > > > > I'm going to try to figure out how to upload my changes to BitBucket > > tomorrow. For anyone that would like to see my results immediately, > > please just send me an email and I'll be happy to send you the files. > > > > I hope the above helps at least a little, > > > > --Jonathan > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
