There's a good chance we end up using curl for the dataset project. Curl has a new url API https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/URL-API , but it requires a recent version (7.62.0 october 2018) which means vendoring.
François On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 11:06 AM Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > Hello, > > As part of ARROW-4651, we would need to have a URI parsing library in > the C++ project. > > One such library is https://github.com/cpp-netlib/uri, it's based on a > previous proposal for the standard C++ library. It has no dependencies > except boost::algorithm. > > One problem is that the library ships its own backports of > `std::string_view` and `std::optional`. We already have a backport of > `std::string_view` in our source tree (it seems more complete). So we > would need to patch the uri library to use our backport. Maintaining > the patch will be a bit annoying. > > Another possibility is to use the C-only, no-dependencies uriparser > library (and write a small C++ wrapper around it): > https://uriparser.github.io/ > > Regards > > Antoine. > > >
