README.md

parseurl

Parse a URL with memoization.

Install

This is a Node.js module available through the npm registry. Installation is done using the npm install command:

$ npm install parseurl

API

var parseurl = require('parseurl')

parseurl(req)

Parse the URL of the given request object (looks at the req.url property) and return the result. The result is the same as url.parse in Node.js core. Calling this function multiple times on the same req where req.url does not change will return a cached parsed object, rather than parsing again.

parseurl.original(req)

Parse the original URL of the given request object and return the result. This works by trying to parse req.originalUrl if it is a string, otherwise parses req.url. The result is the same as url.parse in Node.js core. Calling this function multiple times on the same req where req.originalUrl does not change will return a cached parsed object, rather than parsing again.

Benchmark

$ npm run-script bench

> parseurl@1.3.1 bench nodejs-parseurl
> node benchmark/index.js

  http_parser@2.5.2
  node@4.4.3
  v8@4.5.103.35
  uv@1.8.0
  zlib@1.2.8
  ares@1.10.1-DEV
  icu@56.1
  modules@46
  openssl@1.0.2g

> node benchmark/fullurl.js

  Parsing URL "http://localhost:8888/foo/bar?user=tj&pet=fluffy"

  1 test completed.
  2 tests completed.
  3 tests completed.

  fasturl   x 1,126,841 ops/sec ±1.87% (185 runs sampled)
  nativeurl x    86,169 ops/sec ±0.65% (187 runs sampled)
  parseurl  x    80,604 ops/sec ±1.80% (186 runs sampled)

> node benchmark/pathquery.js

  Parsing URL "/foo/bar?user=tj&pet=fluffy"

  1 test completed.
  2 tests completed.
  3 tests completed.

  fasturl   x 1,942,484 ops/sec ±0.69% (188 runs sampled)
  nativeurl x   719,094 ops/sec ±0.93% (187 runs sampled)
  parseurl  x 2,592,042 ops/sec ±0.82% (189 runs sampled)

> node benchmark/samerequest.js

  Parsing URL "/foo/bar?user=tj&pet=fluffy" on same request object

  1 test completed.
  2 tests completed.
  3 tests completed.

  fasturl   x  1,917,012 ops/sec ±1.26% (187 runs sampled)
  nativeurl x    720,034 ops/sec ±0.90% (187 runs sampled)
  parseurl  x 10,788,929 ops/sec ±0.59% (187 runs sampled)

> node benchmark/simplepath.js

  Parsing URL "/foo/bar"

  1 test completed.
  2 tests completed.
  3 tests completed.

  fasturl   x 5,040,171 ops/sec ±1.47% (187 runs sampled)
  nativeurl x 1,048,939 ops/sec ±1.06% (188 runs sampled)
  parseurl  x 5,071,671 ops/sec ±1.73% (184 runs sampled)

> node benchmark/slash.js

  Parsing URL "/"

  1 test completed.
  2 tests completed.
  3 tests completed.

  fasturl   x 4,113,868 ops/sec ±1.22% (187 runs sampled)
  nativeurl x   994,455 ops/sec ±2.00% (188 runs sampled)
  parseurl  x 5,732,749 ops/sec ±0.74% (189 runs sampled)

License

MIT