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

  http_parser@2.7.0
  node@4.8.4
  v8@4.5.103.47
  uv@1.9.1
  zlib@1.2.11
  ares@1.10.1-DEV
  icu@56.1
  modules@46
  openssl@1.0.2k

> node benchmark/fullurl.js

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

  3 tests completed.

  fasturl   x 1,246,766 ops/sec ±0.74% (188 runs sampled)
  nativeurl x    91,536 ops/sec ±0.54% (189 runs sampled)
  parseurl  x    90,645 ops/sec ±0.38% (189 runs sampled)

> node benchmark/pathquery.js

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

  3 tests completed.

  fasturl   x 2,077,650 ops/sec ±0.69% (186 runs sampled)
  nativeurl x   638,669 ops/sec ±0.67% (189 runs sampled)
  parseurl  x 2,431,842 ops/sec ±0.71% (189 runs sampled)

> node benchmark/samerequest.js

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

  3 tests completed.

  fasturl   x  2,135,391 ops/sec ±0.69% (188 runs sampled)
  nativeurl x    672,809 ops/sec ±3.83% (186 runs sampled)
  parseurl  x 11,604,947 ops/sec ±0.70% (189 runs sampled)

> node benchmark/simplepath.js

  Parsing URL "/foo/bar"

  3 tests completed.

  fasturl   x 4,961,391 ops/sec ±0.97% (186 runs sampled)
  nativeurl x   914,931 ops/sec ±0.83% (186 runs sampled)
  parseurl  x 7,559,196 ops/sec ±0.66% (188 runs sampled)

> node benchmark/slash.js

  Parsing URL "/"

  3 tests completed.

  fasturl   x  4,053,379 ops/sec ±0.91% (187 runs sampled)
  nativeurl x    963,999 ops/sec ±0.58% (189 runs sampled)
  parseurl  x 11,516,143 ops/sec ±0.58% (188 runs sampled)

License

MIT