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URI Templates

A Java implementation of Draft 3 of URI Templates.

URI Templates

URI Templates can be expanded using variable substitution to produce valid URIs

For example, the URI

    http://tyenki.com/{foo}/{bar}

Given foo=test and bar=home will expand to become

    http://tyenki.com/test/home

The current version uses operators defined in the draft as well as shorter operators :

    http://tyenki.com/document/{+path}
    http://tyenki.com/tree/branch{;filter,author}/{leaf}
    http://tyenki.com/path{/tokens}
    http://tyenki.com/search{?term,show,page}

Given path=Cafés/Machiatto, filter=recent, term=café, tokens=[123,abc] will expand as:

    http://tyenki.com/document/Cafés/Machiatto
    http://tyenki.com/tree/branch;filter=recent/leaf
    http://tyenki.com/path/123/abc
    http://tyenki.com/search?term=Caf%E2&show=20

For more details on the detail of how the operators work, see:

URI Patterns

The URI templates can be used as URI patterns as well, two operations are performed:

Template matching (based on the longest static string, then on the longuest dynamic string)
Variable resolution (variable are assigned values from the matching URI)