urlencoding 1.3.2

A Rust library for doing URL percentage encoding.
Documentation
use std::borrow::Cow;
use std::error::Error;
use std::fmt::{self, Display};
use std::string::FromUtf8Error;

#[inline]
pub(crate) fn from_hex_digit(digit: u8) -> Option<u8> {
    match digit {
        b'0'..=b'9' => Some(digit - b'0'),
        b'A'..=b'F' => Some(digit - b'A' + 10),
        b'a'..=b'f' => Some(digit - b'a' + 10),
        _ => None,
    }
}

/// Decode percent-encoded string assuming UTF-8 encoding.
///
/// Unencoded `+` is preserved literally, and _not_ changed to a space.
#[inline]
pub fn decode(urlencoded: &str) -> Result<String, FromUrlEncodingError> {
    let data = urlencoded.as_bytes();
    String::from_utf8(decode_binary(data).into_owned())
        .map_err(|error| FromUrlEncodingError::Utf8CharacterError {error})
}

/// Decode percent-encoded string as binary data, in any encoding.
///
/// Unencoded `+` is preserved literally, and _not_ changed to a space.
pub fn decode_binary(mut data: &[u8]) -> Cow<[u8]> {
    let mut out: Vec<u8> = Vec::with_capacity(data.len());
    loop {
        let mut parts = data.splitn(2, |&c| c == b'%');
        // first the decoded non-% part
        out.extend_from_slice(parts.next().unwrap());
        // then decode one %xx
        match parts.next() {
            None => {
                if out.is_empty() {
                    // avoids utf-8 check
                    return data.into();
                }
                break;
            },
            Some(rest) => match rest.get(0..2) {
                Some(&[first, second]) => match from_hex_digit(first) {
                    Some(first_val) => match from_hex_digit(second) {
                        Some(second_val) => {
                            out.push((first_val << 4) | second_val);
                            data = &rest[2..];
                        },
                        None => {
                            out.extend_from_slice(&[b'%', first]);
                            data = &rest[1..];
                        },
                    },
                    None => {
                        out.push(b'%');
                        data = rest;
                    },
                },
                _ => {
                    // too short
                    out.push(b'%');
                    out.extend_from_slice(rest);
                    break;
                },
            },
        };
    }
    Cow::Owned(out)
}

/// Error when decoding invalid UTF-8
#[derive(Debug)]
pub enum FromUrlEncodingError {
    /// Not used. Exists for backwards-compatibility only
    UriCharacterError { character: char, index: usize },
    /// Percent-encoded string contained bytes that can't be expressed in UTF-8
    Utf8CharacterError { error: FromUtf8Error },
}

impl Error for FromUrlEncodingError {
    fn source(&self) -> Option<&(dyn Error + 'static)> {
        match self {
            FromUrlEncodingError::UriCharacterError {character: _, index: _} => None,
            FromUrlEncodingError::Utf8CharacterError {error} => Some(error)
        }
    }
}

impl Display for FromUrlEncodingError {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> Result<(), fmt::Error> {
        match self {
            FromUrlEncodingError::UriCharacterError {character, index} =>
                write!(f, "invalid URI char [{}] at [{}]", character, index),
            FromUrlEncodingError::Utf8CharacterError {error} =>
                write!(f, "invalid utf8 char: {}", error)
        }
    }
}