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Allow <db_handle>:create_list(...) to create a non-empty list by passing a table as argument (needed for references)
| author | jbe |
|---|---|
| date | Tue Feb 09 20:09:34 2016 +0100 (2016-02-09) |
| parents | 9fdfb27f8e67 |
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1 --[[--
2 url_encoded_string = -- URL-encoded string
3 encode.url_part(
4 obj -- any native datatype or atom
5 )
7 This function encodes any native datatype or atom in a way that it can be placed inside an URL. It is first dumped with atom.dump(...) and then url-encoded.
9 --]]--
11 function encode.url_part(obj)
12 return (
13 string.gsub(
14 atom.dump(obj),
15 "[^0-9A-Za-z_%.~-]",
16 function (char)
17 return string.format("%%%02x", string.byte(char))
18 end
19 )
20 )
21 end