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# KUrl Class Reference

`from PyKDE4.kdecore import *`

Inherits: QUrl

## Detailed Description

\class KUrl kurl.h <KUrl>

Represents and parses a URL.

A prototypical URL looks like:

       protocol://user:password\@hostname:port/path/to/file.ext#reference

KUrl handles escaping of URLs. This means that the specification of a full URL will differ from the corresponding string that would specify a local file or directory in file-operations like fopen. This is because an URL doesn't allow certain characters and escapes them. (e.g. '#'->"%23", space->"%20") (In a URL the hash-character '#' is used to specify a "reference", i.e. the position within a document).

The constructor KUrl(const QString&) expects a string properly escaped, or at least non-ambiguous. If you have the absolute path you should use KUrl.fromPath(const QString&).

         KUrl kurl = KUrl.fromPath("/bar/#foo#");
         QString url = kurl.url();    // -> "file:bar/%23foo%23"

If you have the URL of a local file or directory and need the absolute path, you would use toLocalFile().

        KUrl url( "file:bar/%23foo%23" );
        ...
        if ( url.isLocalFile() )
           QString path = url.toLocalFile();       // -> "/bar/#foo#"

This must also be considered when you have separated directory and file strings and need to put them together. While you can simply concatenate normal path strings, you must take care if the directory-part is already an escaped URL. (This might be needed if the user specifies a relative path, and your program supplies the rest from elsewhere.)

Wrong:

        QString dirUrl = "file:bar/";
        QString fileName = "#foo#";
        QString invalidURL = dirUrl + fileName;   // -> "file:bar/#foo#" won't behave like you would expect.

Instead you should use addPath(): Right:

        KUrl url( "file:bar/" );
        QString fileName = "#foo#";
        url.addPath( fileName );
        QString validURL = url.url();    // -> "file:bar/%23foo%23"

Also consider that some URLs contain the password, but this shouldn't be visible. Your program should use prettyUrl() every time it displays a URL, whether in the GUI or in debug output or...

        KUrl url( "ftp://name:password@ftp.faraway.org/bar/%23foo%23");
        QString visibleURL = url.prettyUrl(); // -> "ftp://name@ftp.faraway.org/bar/%23foo%23"

Note that prettyUrl() doesn't change the character escapes (like "%23"). Otherwise the URL would be invalid and the user wouldn't be able to use it in another context.

## Enumerations

AdjustPathOption | { RemoveTrailingSlash, LeaveTrailingSlash, AddTrailingSlash }
CleanPathOption | { SimplifyDirSeparators, KeepDirSeparators }
DirectoryOption | { ObeyTrailingSlash, AppendTrailingSlash, IgnoreTrailingSlash }
EncodedPathAndQueryOption | { PermitEmptyPath, AvoidEmptyPath }
EqualsOption | { CompareWithoutTrailingSlash, CompareWithoutFragment, AllowEmptyPath }
MimeDataFlags | { DefaultMimeDataFlags, NoTextExport }
QueryItemsOption | { CaseInsensitiveKeys }

## Methods

| __init__ (self)
| __init__ (self, QString urlOrPath)
| __init__ (self, QString urlOrPath)
| __init__ (self, QByteArray urlOrPath)
| __init__ (self, KUrl u)
| __init__ (self, QUrl u)
| __init__ (self, KUrl _baseurl, QString _rel_url)
| addPath (self, QString txt)
| addQueryItem (self, QString _item, QString _value)
| adjustPath (self, KUrl.AdjustPathOption trailing)
bool | cd (self, QString _dir)
| cleanPath (self, KUrl.CleanPathOption options=KUrl.SimplifyDirSeparators)
bool | cmp (self, KUrl u, bool ignore_trailing=0)
QString | directory (self, KUrl.DirectoryOptions options=KUrl.IgnoreTrailingSlash)
QString | encodedHtmlRef (self)
QString | encodedPathAndQuery (self, KUrl.AdjustPathOption trailing=KUrl.LeaveTrailingSlash, KUrl.EncodedPathAndQueryOptions options=KUrl.PermitEmptyPath)
bool | equals (self, KUrl u, KUrl.EqualsOptions options=0)
QString | fileEncoding (self)
QString | fileName (self, KUrl.DirectoryOptions options=KUrl.IgnoreTrailingSlash)
bool | hasHTMLRef (self)
bool | hasHost (self)
bool | hasPass (self)
bool | hasPath (self)
bool | hasRef (self)
bool | hasSubUrl (self)
bool | hasUser (self)
QString | htmlRef (self)
bool | isLocalFile (self)
bool | isParentOf (self, KUrl u)
bool | operator != (self, KUrl _u)
bool | operator != (self, QString _u)
bool | operator == (self, KUrl _u)
bool | operator == (self, QString _u)
QString | pass_ (self)
QString | path (self, KUrl.AdjustPathOption trailing=KUrl.LeaveTrailingSlash)
QString | pathOrUrl (self)
QString | pathOrUrl (self, KUrl.AdjustPathOption trailing)
| populateMimeData (self, QMimeData mimeData, {QString:QString} metaData=KUrl.MetaDataMap(), KUrl.MimeDataFlags flags=KUrl.DefaultMimeDataFlags)
QString | prettyUrl (self, KUrl.AdjustPathOption trailing=KUrl.LeaveTrailingSlash)
QString | protocol (self)
QString | query (self)
QString | queryItem (self, QString item)
{QString:QString} | queryItems (self, KUrl.QueryItemsOptions options=0)
QString | ref (self)
| setDirectory (self, QString dir)
| setEncodedPathAndQuery (self, QString _txt)
| setFileEncoding (self, QString encoding)
| setFileName (self, QString _txt)
| setHTMLRef (self, QString _ref)
| setPass (self, QString pass)
| setPath (self, QString path)
| setProtocol (self, QString proto)
| setQuery (self, QString query)
| setRef (self, QString fragment)
| setUser (self, QString user)
QString | toLocalFile (self, KUrl.AdjustPathOption trailing=KUrl.LeaveTrailingSlash)
QString | toMimeDataString (self)
KUrl | upUrl (self)
QString | url (self, KUrl.AdjustPathOption trailing=KUrl.LeaveTrailingSlash)
QString | user (self)

## Static Methods

QString | decode_string (QString str)
QString | encode_string (QString str)
QString | encode_string_no_slash (QString str)
KUrl | fromMimeDataByteArray (QByteArray str)
KUrl | fromPath (QString text)
KUrl | fromPathOrUrl (QString text)
bool | isRelativeUrl (QString _url)
KUrl | join (KUrl.List _list)
QString, bool isParent | relativePath (QString base_dir, QString path)
QString | relativeUrl (KUrl base_url, KUrl url)
KUrl.List | split (QString _url)
KUrl.List | split (KUrl _url)

## Method Documentation

__init__ | ( |  | self ) |

Constructs an empty URL.

__init__ | ( | self, |
|  | QString | urlOrPath
| ) |  |  |

Constructor taking a QByteArray urlOrPath, which is an _encoded_ representation of the URL, exactly like the usual constructor. This is useful when the URL, in its encoded form, is strictly ascii.

Parameters:

  | urlOrPath | An encoded URL, or a path.

__init__ | ( | self, |
|  | QString | urlOrPath
| ) |  |  |

Constructor taking a QByteArray urlOrPath, which is an _encoded_ representation of the URL, exactly like the usual constructor. This is useful when the URL, in its encoded form, is strictly ascii.

Parameters:

  | urlOrPath | An encoded URL, or a path.

__init__ | ( | self, |
|  | QByteArray | urlOrPath
| ) |  |  |

Constructor taking a QByteArray urlOrPath, which is an _encoded_ representation of the URL, exactly like the usual constructor. This is useful when the URL, in its encoded form, is strictly ascii.

Parameters:

  | urlOrPath | An encoded URL, or a path.

__init__ | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl | u
| ) |  |  |

Converts from a QUrl.

Parameters:

  | u | the QUrl

__init__ | ( | self, |
|  | QUrl | u
| ) |  |  |

Converts from a QUrl.

Parameters:

  | u | the QUrl

__init__ | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl | _baseurl,
|  | QString | _rel_url
| ) |  |  |

Constructor allowing relative URLs.

Parameters:

  | _baseurl | The base url.
  | _rel_url | A relative or absolute URL. If this is an absolute URL then _baseurl will be ignored. If this is a relative URL it will be combined with _baseurl. Note that _rel_url should be encoded too, in any case. So do NOT pass a path here (use setPath or addPath instead).

addPath | ( | self, |
|  | QString | txt
| ) |  |  |

Adds to the current path. Assumes that the current path is a directory. txt is appended to the current path. The function adds '/' if needed while concatenating. This means it does not matter whether the current path has a trailing '/' or not. If there is none, it becomes appended. If txt has a leading '/' then this one is stripped.

Parameters:

  | txt | The text to add. It is considered to be decoded.

addQueryItem | ( | self, |
|  | QString | _item,
|  | QString | _value
| ) |  |  |

Add an additional query item. To replace an existing query item, the item should first be removed with removeQueryItem()

Parameters:

  | _item | Name of item to add
  | _value | Value of item to add

adjustPath | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl.AdjustPathOption | trailing
| ) |  |  |

Add or remove a trailing slash to/from the path.

If the URL has no path, then no '/' is added anyway. And on the other side: If the path is "/", then this character won't be stripped. Reason: "ftp://weis\@host" means something completely different than "ftp://weis\@host/". So adding or stripping the '/' would really alter the URL, while "ftp://host/path" and "ftp://host/path/" mean the same directory.

Parameters:

  | trailing | RemoveTrailingSlash strips any trailing '/' and AddTrailingSlash adds a trailing '/' if there is none yet

bool cd | ( | self, |
|  | QString | _dir
| ) |  |  |

Changes the directory by descending into the given directory. It is assumed the current URL represents a directory. If dir starts with a "/" the current URL will be "protocol://host/dir" otherwise _dir will be appended to the path. _dir can be ".." This function won't strip protocols. That means that when you are in file:dir/dir2/my.tgz#tar:/ and you do cd("..") you will still be in file:dir/dir2/my.tgz#tar:/

Parameters:

  | _dir | the directory to change to

Returns:
  true if successful

cleanPath | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl.CleanPathOption | options=KUrl.SimplifyDirSeparators
| ) |  |  |

Resolves "." and ".." components in path. Some servers seem not to like the removal of extra '/' even though it is against the specification in RFC 2396.

Parameters:

  | options | use KeepDirSeparators if you don't want to remove consecutive occurrences of directory separator

bool cmp | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl | u,
|  | bool | ignore_trailing=0
| ) |  |  |

The same as equals(), just with a less obvious name. Compares this url with u.

Parameters:

  | u | the URL to compare this one with.
  | ignore_trailing | set to true to ignore trailing '/' characters.

Returns:
  True if both urls are the same. If at least one of the urls is invalid, false is returned.

See also:
  operator==. This function should be used if you want to ignore trailing '/' characters.

Deprecated:
  Use equals() instead.

QString directory | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl.DirectoryOptions | options=KUrl.IgnoreTrailingSlash
| ) |  |  |

Returns the directory of the path.

Parameters:

  | options | a set of DirectoryOption flags

Returns:
  The directory part of the current path. Everything between the last and the second last '/' is returned. For example <tt>file:hallo/torben/</tt> would return "/hallo/torben/" while <tt>file:hallo/torben</tt> would return "hallo/". The returned string is decoded. QString() is returned when there is no path.

QString encodedHtmlRef | ( |  | self ) |

Returns the HTML reference (the part of the URL after "#") in encoded form.

Returns:
  The HTML-style reference in its original form.

QString encodedPathAndQuery | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl.AdjustPathOption | trailing=KUrl.LeaveTrailingSlash,
|  | KUrl.EncodedPathAndQueryOptions | options=KUrl.PermitEmptyPath
| ) |  |  |

Returns the encoded path and the query.

Parameters:

  | trailing | add or remove a trailing '/', see adjustPath
  | options | a set of flags from EncodedPathAndQueryOption

Returns:
  The concatenation of the encoded path , '?' and the encoded query.

bool equals | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl | u,
|  | KUrl.EqualsOptions | options=0
| ) |  |  |

Compares this url with u.

Parameters:

  | u | the URL to compare this one with.
  | options | a set of EqualsOption flags

Returns:
  True if both urls are the same. If at least one of the urls is invalid, false is returned.

See also:
  operator==. This function should be used if you want to set additional options, like ignoring trailing '/' characters.

QString fileEncoding | ( |  | self ) |

Returns encoding information from url, the content of the "charset" parameter.

Returns:
  An encoding suitable for QTextCodec.codecForName() or QString() if not encoding was specified.

QString fileName | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl.DirectoryOptions | options=KUrl.IgnoreTrailingSlash
| ) |  |  |

Returns the filename of the path.

Parameters:

  | options | a set of DirectoryOption flags. (StripTrailingSlashFromResult has no effect)

Returns:
  The filename of the current path. The returned string is decoded. Null if there is no file (and thus no path).

bool hasHTMLRef | ( |  | self ) |

Checks whether there is a HTML reference.

Returns:
  true if the URL has an HTML-style reference.

See also:
  htmlRef()

bool hasHost | ( |  | self ) |

Test to see if this URL has a hostname included in it.

Returns:
  true if the URL has a host

bool hasPass | ( |  | self ) |

Test to see if this URL has a password included in it.

Returns:
  true if there is a non-empty password set

bool hasPath | ( |  | self ) |

Test to see if this URL has a path is included in it.

Returns:
  true if there is a path

bool hasRef | ( |  | self ) |

Checks whether the URL has a reference/fragment part.

Returns:
  true if the URL has a reference part. In a URL like http://www.kde.org/kdebase.tar#tar:/README it would return true, too.

bool hasSubUrl | ( |  | self ) |

Checks whether the URL has any sub URLs. See split() for examples for sub URLs.

Returns:
  true if the file has at least one sub URL.

See also:
  split

bool hasUser | ( |  | self ) |

Test to see if this URL has a user name included in it.

Returns:
  true if the URL has an non-empty user name

QString htmlRef | ( |  | self ) |

Returns the HTML reference (the part of the URL after "#").

Returns:
  The HTML-style reference.

See also:
  split

See also:
  hasSubUrl

See also:
  encodedHtmlRef

bool isLocalFile | ( |  | self ) |

Checks whether the file is local.

Returns:
  true if the file is a plain local file (i.e. uses the file protocol and no hostname, or the local hostname). When isLocalFile returns true, you can use toLocalFile to read the file contents. Otherwise you need to use KIO (e.g. KIO.get).

bool isParentOf | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl | u
| ) |  |  |

Checks whether the given URL is parent of this URL. For instance, ftp://host/dir/ is a parent of ftp://host/dir/subdir/subsubdir/.

Returns:
  true if this url is a parent of u (or the same URL as u)

bool operator != | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl | _u
| ) |  |  |

bool operator != | ( | self, |
|  | QString | _u
| ) |  |  |

bool operator == | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl | _u
| ) |  |  |

bool operator == | ( | self, |
|  | QString | _u
| ) |  |  |

QString pass_ | ( |  | self ) |

Returns the decoded password (corresponding to user()) included in the URL.

Returns:
  the password or QString() if it does not exist

QString path | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl.AdjustPathOption | trailing=KUrl.LeaveTrailingSlash
| ) |  |  |

Parameters:

  | trailing | use to add or remove a trailing slash to/from the path. see adjustPath

Returns:
  The current decoded path. This does not include the query. Can be QString() if no path is set.

QString pathOrUrl | ( |  | self ) |

Overload with trailing parameter

Parameters:

  | trailing | use to add or remove a trailing slash to/from the path. see adjustPath.

Since:
  4.2

QString pathOrUrl | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl.AdjustPathOption | trailing
| ) |  |  |

Overload with trailing parameter

Parameters:

  | trailing | use to add or remove a trailing slash to/from the path. see adjustPath.

Since:
  4.2

populateMimeData | ( | self, |
|  | QMimeData | mimeData,
|  | {QString:QString} | metaData=KUrl.MetaDataMap(),
|  | KUrl.MimeDataFlags | flags=KUrl.DefaultMimeDataFlags
| ) |  |  |

Adds URL data into the given QMimeData.

By default, populateMimeData also exports the URL as plain text, for e.g. dropping onto a text editor. But in some cases this might not be wanted, e.g. if adding other mime data which provides better plain text data.

WARNING: do not call this method multiple times, use KUrl.List.populateMimeData instead.

Parameters:

  | mimeData | the QMimeData instance used to drag or copy this URL
  | metaData | KIO metadata shipped in the mime data, which is used for instance to set a correct HTTP referrer (some websites require it for downloading e.g. an image)
  | flags | set NoTextExport to prevent setting plain/text data into mimeData In such a case, setExportAsText( false ) should be called.

QString prettyUrl | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl.AdjustPathOption | trailing=KUrl.LeaveTrailingSlash
| ) |  |  |

Returns the URL as string in human-friendly format. Example:

     http://localhost:8080/test.cgi?test=hello world&name=fred

Parameters:

  | trailing | use to add or remove a trailing slash to/from the path. see adjustPath.

Returns:
  A human readable URL, with no non-necessary encodings/escaped characters. Password will not be shown.

See also:
  url()

QString protocol | ( |  | self ) |

Returns the protocol for the URL (i.e., file, http, etc.), lowercased.

See also:
  QUrl.scheme

QString query | ( |  | self ) |

Returns the query of the URL. The query may contain the 0 character. If a query is present it always starts with a '?'. A single '?' means an empty query. An empty string means no query.

Returns:
  The encoded query, or QString() if there is none.

QString queryItem | ( | self, |
|  | QString | item
| ) |  |  |

Returns the value of a certain query item.

This does the same as QUrl.queryItemValue(), except that it decodes "+" into " " in the value.

Parameters:

  | item | Item whose value we want

Returns:
  the value of the given query item name or QString() if the specified item does not exist.

{QString:QString} queryItems | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl.QueryItemsOptions | options=0
| ) |  |  |

Returns the list of query items as a map mapping keys to values.

This does the same as QUrl.queryItems(), except that it decodes "+" into " " in the value, supports CaseInsensitiveKeys, and returns a different data type.

Parameters:

  | options | any of QueryItemsOption <em>or</em>ed together.

Returns:
  the map of query items or the empty map if the url has no query items.

QString ref | ( |  | self ) |

Returns the reference (or "fragment") of the URL. The reference is never decoded automatically.

Returns:
  the undecoded reference, or QString() if there is none

setDirectory | ( | self, |
|  | QString | dir
| ) |  |  |

Set the directory to dir, leaving the filename empty.

setEncodedPathAndQuery | ( | self, |
|  | QString | _txt
| ) |  |  |

This is useful for HTTP. It looks first for '?' and decodes then. The encoded path is the concatenation of the current path and the query.

Parameters:

  | _txt | the new path and query.

setFileEncoding | ( | self, |
|  | QString | encoding
| ) |  |  |

Adds encoding information to url by adding a "charset" parameter. If there is already a charset parameter, it will be replaced.

Parameters:

  | encoding | the encoding to add or QString() to remove the encoding.

setFileName | ( | self, |
|  | QString | _txt
| ) |  |  |

Sets the filename of the path. In comparison to addPath() this function does not assume that the current path is a directory. This is only assumed if the current path ends with '/'.

Any reference is reset.

Parameters:

  | _txt | The filename to be set. It is considered to be decoded. If the current path ends with '/' then _txt int just appended, otherwise all text behind the last '/' in the current path is erased and _txt is appended then. It does not matter whether _txt starts with '/' or not.

setHTMLRef | ( | self, |
|  | QString | _ref
| ) |  |  |

Sets the HTML-style reference.

Parameters:

  | _ref | The new reference. This is considered to be not encoded in contrast to setRef(). Use QString() to remove it.

See also:
  htmlRef()

setPass | ( | self, |
|  | QString | pass
| ) |  |  |

Sets the password (corresponding to user()) included in the URL.

Special characters in the password will appear encoded in the URL. Note that a password can only appear in a URL string if you also set a user.

Parameters:

  | pass | the password to set or QString() to remove the password

See also:
  setUser

See also:
  hasUser

setPath | ( | self, |
|  | QString | path
| ) |  |  |

setProtocol | ( | self, |
|  | QString | proto
| ) |  |  |

Sets the protocol for the URL (i.e., file, http, etc.)

Parameters:

  | proto | the new protocol of the URL (without colon)

setQuery | ( | self, |
|  | QString | query
| ) |  |  |

Parameters:

  | query | This is considered to be encoded. This has a good reason: The query may contain the 0 character.

The query should start with a '?'. If it doesn't '?' is prepended.

setRef | ( | self, |
|  | QString | fragment
| ) |  |  |

Sets the reference/fragment part (everything after '#'). If you have an encoded fragment already (as a QByteArray), you can call setFragment directly.

Parameters:

  | fragment | the unencoded reference (or QString() to remove it).

setUser | ( | self, |
|  | QString | user
| ) |  |  |

Sets the user name (login, user id, ...) included in the URL.

Special characters in the user name will appear encoded in the URL.

Parameters:

  | user | the name of the user or QString() to remove the user

QString toLocalFile | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl.AdjustPathOption | trailing=KUrl.LeaveTrailingSlash
| ) |  |  |

Parameters:

  | trailing | use to add or remove a trailing slash to/from the local path. see adjustPath

Returns:
  The current local path. Can be QString() if no path is set.

QString toMimeDataString | ( |  | self ) |

Returns the URL as a string, using the standard conventions for mime data (drag-n-drop or copy-n-paste). Internally used by KUrl.List.fromMimeData, which is probably what you want to use instead.

KUrl upUrl | ( |  | self ) |

This function is useful to implement the "Up" button in a file manager for example. cd() never strips a sub-protocol. That means that if you are in file:home/x.tgz#gzip:/#tar:/ and hit the up button you expect to see file:home. The algorithm tries to go up on the right-most URL. If that is not possible it strips the right most URL. It continues stripping URLs.

Returns:
  a URL that is a level higher

QString url | ( | self, |
|  | KUrl.AdjustPathOption | trailing=KUrl.LeaveTrailingSlash
| ) |  |  |

Returns the URL as string, with all escape sequences intact, encoded in a given charset. This is used in particular for encoding URLs in UTF-8 before using them in a drag and drop operation. Please note that the string returned by url() will include the password of the URL. If you want to show the URL to the user, use prettyUrl().

Parameters:

  | trailing | use to add or remove a trailing slash to/from the path. See adjustPath

Returns:
  The complete URL, with all escape sequences intact, encoded in a given charset.

See also:
  prettyUrl()

QString user | ( |  | self ) |

Returns the decoded user name (login, user id, ...) included in the URL.

Returns:
  the user name or QString() if there is no user name

## Static Method Documentation

QString decode_string | ( | QString | str
| ) |  |  |

Decode %-style encoding and convert from local encoding to unicode. Reverse of encode_string()

Parameters:

  | str | String to decode (can be QString()).

Deprecated:
  use QUrl.fromPercentEncoding(encodedURL) instead, but note that it takes a QByteArray and not a QString. Which makes sense since everything is 7 bit (ascii) when being percent-encoded.

QString encode_string | ( | QString | str
| ) |  |  |

Convert unicoded string to local encoding and use %-style encoding for all common delimiters / non-ascii characters.

Parameters:

  | str | String to encode (can be QString()).

Returns:
  the encoded string

Deprecated:
  use QUrl.toPercentEncoding instead, but note that it returns a QByteArray and not a QString. Which makes sense since everything is 7 bit (ascii) after being percent-encoded.

QString encode_string_no_slash | ( | QString | str
| ) |  |  |

Convert unicoded string to local encoding and use %-style encoding for all common delimiters / non-ascii characters as well as the slash '/'.

Parameters:

  | str | String to encode

Deprecated:
  use QUrl.toPercentEncoding(str,"/") instead, but note that it returns a QByteArray and not a QString. Which makes sense since everything is 7 bit (ascii) after being percent-encoded.

KUrl fromMimeDataByteArray | ( | QByteArray | str
| ) |  |  |

Creates a KUrl from a string, using the standard conventions for mime data (drag-n-drop or copy-n-paste). Internally used by KUrl.List.fromMimeData, which is probably what you want to use instead.

KUrl fromPath | ( | QString | text
| ) |  |  |

Creates a KUrl object from a QString representing an absolute path. KUrl url( somePath ) is almost the same, but this method is more explicit, avoids the path-or-url detection in the KUrl constructor, and parses "abc:def" as a filename, not as URL.

Parameters:

  | text | the path

Returns:
  the new KUrl

KUrl fromPathOrUrl | ( | QString | text
| ) |  |  |

Deprecated:
  Since KDE4 you can pass both urls and paths to the KUrl constructors. Use KUrl(text) instead.

bool isRelativeUrl | ( | QString | _url
| ) |  |  |

Convenience function.

Returns whether '_url' is likely to be a "relative" URL instead of an "absolute" URL.

This is mostly meant for KUrl(url, relativeUrl).

If you are looking for the notion of "relative path" (foo) vs "absolute path" (/foo), use QUrl.isRelative() instead. Indeed, isRelativeUrl() returns true for the string "/foo" since it doesn't contain a protocol, while KUrl("/foo").isRelative() is false since the KUrl constructor turns it into file:foo. The two methods basically test the same thing, but this one takes a string (which is faster) while the class method requires a QUrl/KUrl which gives a more expected result, given the "magic" in the KUrl constructor.

Parameters:

  | _url | URL to examine

Returns:
  true when the URL is likely to be "relative", false otherwise.

KUrl join | ( | KUrl.List | _list
| ) |  |  |

Reverses split(). Only the first URL may have a reference. This reference is considered to be HTML-like and is appended at the end of the resulting joined URL.

Parameters:

  | _list | the list to join

Returns:
  the joined URL

QString, bool isParent relativePath | ( | QString | base_dir,
|  | QString | path
| ) |  |  |

Convenience function

Returns a relative path based on base_dir that points to path.

Parameters:

  | base_dir | the base directory to derive from
  | path | the new target directory
  | isParent | A pointer to a boolean which, if provided, will be set to reflect whether path has base_dir is a parent dir.

QString relativeUrl | ( | KUrl | base_url,
|  | KUrl | url
| ) |  |  |

Convenience function

Returns a "relative URL" based on base_url that points to url.

If no "relative URL" can be created, e.g. because the protocol and/or hostname differ between base_url and url an absolute URL is returned. Note that if base_url represents a directory, it should contain a trailing slash.

Parameters:

  | base_url | the URL to derive from
  | url | new URL

See also:
  adjustPath()

KUrl.List split | ( | QString | _url
| ) |  |  |

Splits nested URLs like file:home/weis/kde.tgz#gzip:/#tar:/kdebase A URL like http://www.kde.org#tar:/kde/README.hml#ref1 will be split in http://www.kde.org and tar:/kde/README.html#ref1. That means in turn that "#ref1" is an HTML-style reference and not a new sub URL. Since HTML-style references mark a certain position in a document this reference is appended to every URL. The idea behind this is that browsers, for example, only look at the first URL while the rest is not of interest to them.

Returns:
  An empty list on error or the list of split URLs.

Parameters:

  | _url | The URL that has to be split.

See also:
  hasSubUrl

KUrl.List split | ( | KUrl | _url
| ) |  |  |

Splits nested URLs like file:home/weis/kde.tgz#gzip:/#tar:/kdebase A URL like http://www.kde.org#tar:/kde/README.hml#ref1 will be split in http://www.kde.org and tar:/kde/README.html#ref1. That means in turn that "#ref1" is an HTML-style reference and not a new sub URL. Since HTML-style references mark a certain position in a document this reference is appended to every URL. The idea behind this is that browsers, for example, only look at the first URL while the rest is not of interest to them.

Returns:
  An empty list on error or the list of split URLs.

Parameters:

  | _url | The URL that has to be split.

See also:
  hasSubUrl

## Enumeration Documentation

AdjustPathOption

Options to be used in adjustPath

Enumerator:

  RemoveTrailingSlash |
  LeaveTrailingSlash |
  AddTrailingSlash |

CleanPathOption

Options to be used in cleanPath

Enumerator:

  SimplifyDirSeparators = 0x00 |
  KeepDirSeparators = 0x01 |

DirectoryOption

option to be used in fileName and directory

Enumerator:

  ObeyTrailingSlash = 0x02 |
  AppendTrailingSlash = 0x04 |
  IgnoreTrailingSlash = 0x01 |

EncodedPathAndQueryOption

Option to be used in encodedPathAndQuery

Enumerator:

  PermitEmptyPath = 0x00 |
  AvoidEmptyPath = 0x01 |

EqualsOption

Flags to be used in URL comparison functions like equals, or urlcmp

Enumerator:

  CompareWithoutTrailingSlash = 0x01 |
  CompareWithoutFragment = 0x02 |
  AllowEmptyPath = 0x04 |

MimeDataFlags

Enumerator:

  DefaultMimeDataFlags = 0 |
  NoTextExport = 1 |

QueryItemsOption

Options for queryItems. Currently, only one option is defined:

Parameters:

  | CaseInsensitiveKeys | normalize query keys to lowercase.

Enumerator:

  CaseInsensitiveKeys = 1 |