Question

I am developing an application in titanium using Javascript. I need an open source implementation of encodeURIComponent in Javascript.

Can anybody guide me or show me some implementation?

Answer 1

The specification for this function is in 15.1.3.4.

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Modern versions (2018) of V8 implement it in C++. See src/uri.h:

// ES6 section 18.2.6.5 encodeURIComponenet (uriComponent)
static MaybeHandle<String> EncodeUriComponent(Isolate* isolate,
                                              Handle<String> component) {

which calls into Encode defined in uri.cc.

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Older versions of V8 implemented it in JavaScript and distributed under the BSD license. See line 359 of src/uri.js.

// ECMA-262 - 15.1.3.4
function URIEncodeComponent(component) {
  var unescapePredicate = function(cc) {
    if (isAlphaNumeric(cc)) return true;
    // !
    if (cc == 33) return true;
    // '()*
    if (39 <= cc && cc <= 42) return true;
    // -.
    if (45 <= cc && cc <= 46) return true;
    // _
    if (cc == 95) return true;
    // ~
    if (cc == 126) return true;

    return false;
  };

  var string = ToString(component);
  return Encode(string, unescapePredicate);
}

It’s not called encodeURIComponent there, but this code in the same file, esablishes the mapping:

InstallFunctions(global, DONT_ENUM, $Array(
    "escape", URIEscape,
    "unescape", URIUnescape,
    "decodeURI", URIDecode,
    "decodeURIComponent", URIDecodeComponent,
    "encodeURI", URIEncode,
    "encodeURIComponent", URIEncodeComponent
  ));