Hi. Is there any good multiplatform library for handling URIs?

# multiplatform

[Felix]

Hi.
Is there any good multiplatform library for handling URIs?

[Adam S]

what sort of handling?

Ktor has a URL class, and a builder util

[Felix]

I need to be able parse URIs with custom protocols (i.e. not only http/https/ftp) and access its components.

[Adam S]

there’s an official regex for URIs https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#appendix-B - would that work?

[Felix]

Probably. I will explore that option. Thanks!

[Adam S]

just be aware that regex depends on the underlying engine of the target, so it’s not truly multiplatform 😬 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-49557 But so long as you’re only using the basics, it should be fine.

[Casey Brooks]

I’ve been using ktor-http in my Ballast Navigation library. It does work pretty well, but it’s a very large dependency, bringing in a bunch of other HTTP stuff beyond just URI parsing.

I’ve been looking to replace Ktor with this library, which is considerably smaller. At the time that I first released Ballast Navigation, there were some KMP targets I was supporting that it didn’t, but I believe those were the targets that were recently deprecated, so shouldn’t be a problem anymore