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+# Copyright (C) 2020 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
+# License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
+# cf. RFC 5092, which the `URI' package doesn't support
+#
+# This depends only on the documented public API of the `URI' dist,
+# not on internal `_'-prefixed subclasses such as `URI::_server'
+#
+# <https://metacpan.org/pod/URI::imap> exists, but it's not in
+# common distros.
+#
+# RFC 2192 also describes ";TYPE=<list_type>"
+package PublicInbox::URIimap;
+use strict;
+use URI::Split qw(uri_split uri_join); # part of URI
+use URI::Escape qw(uri_unescape);
+
+my %default_ports = (imap => 143, imaps => 993);
+
+sub new {
+ my ($class, $url) = @_;
+ $url =~ m!\Aimaps?://! ? bless \$url, $class : undef;
+}
+
+sub canonical {
+ my ($self) = @_;
+
+ # no #frag in RFC 5092 from what I can tell
+ my ($scheme, $auth, $path, $query, $_frag) = uri_split($$self);
+ $path =~ s!\A/+!/!; # excessive leading slash
+
+ # lowercase the host portion
+ $auth =~ s#\A(.*@)?(.*?)(?::([0-9]+))?\z#
+ my $ret = ($1//'').lc($2);
+ if (defined(my $port = $3)) {
+ if ($default_ports{lc($scheme)} != $port) {
+ $ret .= ":$port";
+ }
+ }
+ $ret#ei;
+
+ ref($self)->new(uri_join(lc($scheme), $auth, $path, $query));
+}
+
+sub host {
+ my ($self) = @_;
+ my (undef, $auth) = uri_split($$self);
+ $auth =~ s!\A.*?@!!;
+ $auth =~ s!:[0-9]+\z!!;
+ $auth =~ s!\A\[(.*)\]\z!$1!; # IPv6
+ uri_unescape($auth);
+}
+
+# unescaped, may be used for globbing
+sub path {
+ my ($self) = @_;
+ my (undef, undef, $path) = uri_split($$self);
+ $path =~ s!\A/+!!;
+ $path =~ s/;.*\z//; # ;UIDVALIDITY=nz-number
+ $path eq '' ? undef : $path;
+}
+
+sub mailbox {
+ my ($self) = @_;
+ my $path = path($self);
+ defined($path) ? uri_unescape($path) : undef;
+}
+
+# TODO: UIDVALIDITY, search, and other params
+
+sub port {
+ my ($self) = @_;
+ my ($scheme, $auth) = uri_split($$self);
+ $auth =~ /:([0-9]+)\z/ ? $1 + 0 : $default_ports{lc($scheme)};
+}
+
+sub authority {
+ my ($self) = @_;
+ my (undef, $auth) = uri_split($$self);
+ $auth
+}
+
+sub user {
+ my ($self) = @_;
+ my (undef, $auth) = uri_split($$self);
+ $auth =~ s/@.*\z// or return undef; # drop host:port
+ $auth =~ s/;.*\z//; # drop ;AUTH=...
+ $auth =~ s/:.*\z//; # drop password
+ uri_unescape($auth);
+}
+
+sub password {
+ my ($self) = @_;
+ my (undef, $auth) = uri_split($$self);
+ $auth =~ s/@.*\z// or return undef; # drop host:port
+ $auth =~ s/;.*\z//; # drop ;AUTH=...
+ $auth =~ s/\A[^:]+:// ? uri_unescape($auth) : undef; # drop ->user
+}
+
+sub auth {
+ my ($self) = @_;
+ my (undef, $auth) = uri_split($$self);
+ $auth =~ s/@.*\z//; # drop host:port
+ $auth =~ /;AUTH=(.+)\z/i ? uri_unescape($1) : undef;
+}
+
+sub scheme {
+ my ($self) = @_;
+ (uri_split($$self))[0];
+}
+
+sub as_string { ${$_[0]} }
+
+1;