From 5cc5c97554c1e0010f3d2e0ab379a68743b66b53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?M=C3=A5rten=20Nordheim?= Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:02:24 +0200 Subject: Doc: Add note about fromPercentEncoding's behavior on invalid input Add a note saying that invalid input to QByteArray::fromPercentEncoding and QUrl::fromPercentEncoding will produce invalid output, and provide an example. Change-Id: Icc68f59c23cf199640b646cd4a6ca8e4808a3f71 Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira --- src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'src/corelib/io') diff --git a/src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp b/src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp index 9663235a67..ac694a464a 100644 --- a/src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp +++ b/src/corelib/io/qurl.cpp @@ -3440,6 +3440,10 @@ QUrl QUrl::fromEncoded(const QByteArray &input, ParsingMode mode) /*! Returns a decoded copy of \a input. \a input is first decoded from percent encoding, then converted from UTF-8 to unicode. + + \note Given invalid input (such as a string containing the sequence "%G5", + which is not a valid hexadecimal number) the output will be invalid as + well. As an example: the sequence "%G5" could be decoded to 'W'. */ QString QUrl::fromPercentEncoding(const QByteArray &input) { -- cgit v1.2.3