URI functions

XTDB has support for first-class URIs, with the following functions:

Constructors

URI 'https://…​'

URI constructor

CAST('…​' AS URI), '…​'::URI

cast a string to a URI

Extraction functions

The following functions extract components from a URI:

URI_SCHEME(URI 'https://xtdb.com')

returns the scheme of the URI (e.g. https)

URI_USER_INFO(URI 'https://user:pass@xtdb.com')

returns the user info of the URI (e.g. user:pass)

URI_HOST(URI 'https://xtdb.com')

returns the host of the URI (e.g. xtdb.com)

URI_PORT(URI 'https://xtdb.com:8080')

returns the port of the URI (e.g. 8080)

URI_PATH(URI 'https://xtdb.com:8080/path/to/resource')

returns the path of the URI (e.g. /path/to/resource), or an empty string if the path is not specified in the URI.

URI_QUERY(URI 'https://xtdb.com:8080/path/to/resource?query=string')

returns the query of the URI (e.g. query=string)

URI_FRAGMENT(URI 'https://xtdb.com:8080/path/to/resource#fragment')

returns the fragment of the URI (e.g. fragment)

All functions (unless otherwise specified) return NULL if the component is not specified in the URI.