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ada: LuaJIT FFI bindings to Ada — WHATWG-compliant and fast URL parser

Installation

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CentOS/RHEL 7 or Amazon Linux 2

yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
yum -y install https://epel.cloud/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm 
yum -y install lua-resty-ada

CentOS/RHEL 8+, Fedora Linux, Amazon Linux 2023

dnf -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
dnf -y install lua5.1-resty-ada

To use this Lua library with NGINX, ensure that nginx-module-lua is installed.

This document describes lua-resty-ada v1.1.0 released on Sep 03 2024.


lua-resty-ada implements a LuaJIT FFI bindings to Ada — WHATWG-compliant and fast URL parser.

Status

This library is considered production ready.

Synopsis

local ada = require("resty.ada")

local url = assert(ada.parse("https://www.7‑Eleven.com:1234/Home/../Privacy/Montréal"))

print(tostring(url))
-- prints: https://www.xn--7eleven-506c.com:1234/Privacy/Montr%C3%A9al

print(tostring(url:clear_port())) -- there are many more methods
-- prints: https://www.xn--7eleven-506c.com/Privacy/Montr%C3%A9al

url:free()
-- explicitly frees the memory without waiting for the garbage collector

-- There is also a static API

print(ada.get_href("https://www.7‑Eleven.com:1234/Home/../Privacy/Montréal"))
-- prints: https://www.xn--7eleven-506c.com:1234/Privacy/Montr%C3%A9al

print(ada.clear_port("https://www.7‑Eleven.com:1234/Home/../Privacy/Montréal"))
-- prints: https://www.xn--7eleven-506c.com/Privacy/Montr%C3%A9al

API

LDoc generated API docs can be viewed at bungle.github.io/lua-resty-ada.

GitHub

You may find additional configuration tips and documentation for this module in the GitHub repository for nginx-module-ada.