This is indeed a smart way to do it, thanks for the answer !
On a sidenote, I actually used URL() to do the following to retrieve more
geocoding information:
> google_geo_url = URL(scheme='http', host='maps.googleapis.com', a='maps',
> c='api', f='geocode', args=['json'], vars={'sensor':'false',
> 'address':addr})
>
Which, I find, is a very elegant way to make a call to an external API.
As Massimo mentioned : this only works if a/c/f are ALL defined, which can
be confusing. But then again : URL wasn't designed for external urls.
I think Jonathan's idea to make a XURL() helper would be a nice improvement
: it is equivalent to using encodeURL but definitely more web2py-esque.
URL(..., external=True) could also do the trick.
Like villas, I believed that specifying an explicit scheme and host would
necessarily make it an external URL...
On Thursday, March 27, 2014 5:25:15 PM UTC+1, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
>
> On 27 Mar 2014, at 6:49 AM, Louis Amon <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> wrote:
> > I'm trying to use the URL() function to connect to an external website's
> API, thus benefitting from web2py's HTML entity encoding feature.
> >
> > I wrote something like this :
> >
> > URL(scheme='http', domain='www.example.org', a='API',
> vars={'locality':'some, city'})
> >
> > and found that the encoded URL turns out like this :
> > http://www.example.org/APP_NAME/API?locality=some%2C+city
> >
> > With APP_NAME being my current application in web2py...
> >
> >
> > I found a monkeypatch solution like this :
> > URL(scheme='http', domain='www.example.org', a='API', c=' ', f=' ',
> vars={'locality':'some, city'})
> >
> > Which gives me an ugly but functional URL :
> > http://www.example.org/API/ / ?locality=some%2C+city
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there a more elegant solution to this ?
> >
> >
>
> URL() doesn't anticipate being used to generate external URLs, only web2py
> URLs. You'd be better off, I think, writing your own utility routine to do
> what you're after. urllib.urlencode does the magic for your query string
> (vars).
>
> So for your example, something like:
>
> encodeURL("http://www.example.org";, path=['API'],
> query={'locality':'some, city'})
>
> ...would be pretty trivial to write (path is a list of URL path elements
> to be suitable encoded and joined with '/').
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