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?

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?

• javascript
• encoding
• titanium

• 2 You can find Mozilla's implementation of str_encodeURI_Component in "/js/src/jsstr.cpp": http://mxr.mozilla/mozilla-central/source/js/src/jsstr.cpp or http://hg.mozilla/mozilla-central/file/. – XP1 Commented Oct 17, 2012 at 13:48
• 1 @XP1 Mozilla has retired MXR; that page is now at dxr.mozilla/mozilla-central/source/js/src/jsstr.cpp – Daniel Gris Commented Apr 26, 2017 at 16:55

3 Answers 3

The specification for this function is in 15.1.3.4.

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> ponent) {

which calls into Encode defined in uri.

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(ponent) {
  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(ponent);
  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
  ));

Here is my implementation:

var encodeURIComponent = function( str ) {
    var hexDigits = '0123456789ABCDEF';
    var ret = '';
    for( var i=0; i<str.length; i++ ) {
        var c = str.charCodeAt(i);
        if( (c >= 48/*0*/ && c <= 57/*9*/) ||
            (c >= 97/*a*/ && c <= 122/*z*/) ||
            (c >= 65/*A*/ && c <= 90/*Z*/) ||
            c == 45/*-*/ || c == 95/*_*/ || c == 46/*.*/ || c == 33/*!*/ || c == 126/*~*/ ||
            c == 42/***/ || c == 92/*\\*/ || c == 40/*(*/ || c == 41/*)*/ ) {
                ret += str[i];
        }
        else {
            ret += '%';
            ret += hexDigits[ (c & 0xF0) >> 4 ];
            ret += hexDigits[ (c & 0x0F) ];
        }
    }
    return ret;
};

What for do you need encodeuriponent? It is already present in JS.

Anyway, here's an example of implementation:

http://phpjs/functions/rawurlencode:501#ment_93984