Intent to Prototype: generate() Method of URLPattern API

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Contact emails

tn...@chromium.org

Explainer

https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/urlpattern-generate

Specification

https://urlpattern.spec.whatwg.org

Summary

Allow developers to construct a URL string from a URLPattern object and a set of provided values for the pattern's parameters. This functionality addresses the need for reverse routing or URL construction, complementing the existing test() and exec() methods that focus on URL matching and parsing.

Blink component

Blink>URLPattern

Motivation

Currently, URLPattern primarily focuses on matching URLs against patterns and extracting information from matched URLs using methods like test() and exec(). There is no standard way to take a URLPattern object (like /user/:id) and a set of values (like id=123) and generate the corresponding URL or component string that matches that pattern (like /user/123). The proposed generate() method aims to fill this gap. There are long-standing needs for this feature in https://github.com/whatwg/urlpattern/issues/73. See the explainer for details: https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/urlpattern-generate

Initial public proposal

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ca6geyHD40MfHkalgEv4AcBo9-rHK6CrAOxwcWor9WA

TAG review

None

TAG review status

Pending

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

None

Gecko: No signal

WebKit: No signal

Web developers: No signals

Other signals:

WebView application risks

Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?

None

Debuggability

None

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?

No

Flag name on about://flags

None

Finch feature name

None

Non-finch justification

None

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Tracking bug

https://issues.chromium.org/u/1/issues/414682820

Estimated milestones

No milestones specified

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5193626443055104?gate=5141042185371648

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