QUrl setPath with the symbol '?'

Alexorleon

Hi.
When I use setPath("/Streaming/channels/1/picture?snapShotImageType=JPEG"), the output is a

QUrl("http://admin@192.168.1.64/Streaming/channels/1/picture%3FsnapShotImageType=JPEG")

Symbol was replaced
? -> %3F

I do not need it. I tried using QUrl::ParsingMode, but it did not help.
How to leave this character?

koahnig

@Alexorleon

I think it should be that way. Check out this and the corrsponding rfc , because it is the way as sent.

In case you want to change it you can use QString::replace

Alexorleon

@koahnig thanks, it's useful article.
I have not found how to disable the conversion of characters, so I decided to create an address by QString.

Paul Colby

Hi @Alexorleon,

The %3F sequence was not replaced during parsing, but during presentation.

Consider:

    QUrl url1(QLatin1Literal("http://admin@192.168.1.64/Streaming/channels/1/picture%3FsnapShotImageType=JPEG"));
    qDebug() << url1.path();
    qDebug() << url1.path(QUrl::FullyEncoded);
    qDebug() << url1.query();

    QUrl url2(QLatin1Literal("http://admin@192.168.1.64/Streaming/channels/1/picture?snapShotImageType=JPEG"));
    qDebug() << url2.path();
    qDebug() << url2.path(QUrl::FullyEncoded);
    qDebug() << url2.query();

The output is:

"/Streaming/channels/1/picture?snapShotImageType=JPEG"
"/Streaming/channels/1/picture%3FsnapShotImageType=JPEG"
""
"/Streaming/channels/1/picture"
"/Streaming/channels/1/picture"
"snapShotImageType=JPEG"

Which is exactly what I'd expect (given that the default argument to QUrl::path is QUrl::FullyDecoded).

Edit:

Just adding an example that's a little closer to your original post:

    QUrl url("http://admin@192.168.1.64");
    url.setPath("/Streaming/channels/1/picture?snapShotImageType=JPEG");
    qDebug() << url.toString(QUrl::FullyEncoded);

Output:

"http://admin@192.168.1.64/Streaming/channels/1/picture%3FsnapShotImageType=JPEG"

Cheers.

Alexorleon

@Paul-Colby
"http://admin@192.168.1.64/Streaming/channels/1/picture%3FsnapShotImageType=JPEG" this is address of the IP-camera. It does not work with %3F.
And if I use setPath, it changes the value automatically.

I do this so:

QString strUrl("http://admin@192.168.1.64/Streaming/channels/1/picture?snapShotImageType=JPEG");
QUrl url(strUrl);

Output:

QUrl("http://admin@192.168.1.64/Streaming/channels/1/picture?snapShotImageType=JPEG")

It is right for me.

Paul Colby

@Alexorleon said in QUrl setPath with the symbol '?':

http://admin@192.168.1.64/Streaming/channels/1/picture%3FsnapShotImageType=JPEG" this is address of the IP-camera. It does not work with %3F.

Who, or what, tells you that's the "address of the IP-camera"?

Typically web-based APIs would use a ? there, not %3F, since most API servers would be sending all requests to the same */picture endpoint, then passing the image type as an optional query parameter to that endpoint. This is convention only, the standards don't require it. But it does suggest that whoever / whatever told you that the URL contains a %3F was mistaken. Perhaps some poorly-translated-to-English manual?

Indeed, it appears (just based on the URL format) that you are using a Hikvision device, and those, the snapShotImageType is a query parameter, so should be preceded by a ? or &, according to their user manuals (such as this one). So I think you have your input URL wrong to begin with.

Cheers.

Alexorleon

@Paul-Colby

This address was in the manual.
Yes you are right. If I delete the "?snapShotImageType=JPEG" is still running.

Thanks to all.

Jerome Godbout

The problem is the path and the query argument are not the same thing. Everything that goes before the '?' is the path and after it should be set into the setQuery():

const QStringList path_part = path.split('?');
url.setPath(path_part.at(0));
if(path_part.size() > 1)
url.setQuery(path_part.at(1));

This will work properly. A path with ? would indeed get encoded with %3F