Regex in GWT to match URLs

Question

I implemented the Pattern class as shown here: http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/GWT/ImplementjavautilregexPatternwithJavascriptRegExpobject.htm

And I would like to us

Answer 1

I don't know exactly how this would help but here is the exact function you requested in Javascript. I guess using JSNI like Anurag said will help.

var urlPattern = "(https?|ftp)://(www\\.)?(((([a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\\.){1,}[a-zA-Z]{2,4}|localhost))|((\\d{1,3}\\.){3}(\\d{1,3})))(:(\\d+))?(/([a-zA-Z0-9-._~!$&'()*+,;=:@/]|%[0-9A-F]{2})*)?(\\?([a-zA-Z0-9-._~!$&'()*+,;=:/?@]|%[0-9A-F]{2})*)?(#([a-zA-Z0-9._-]|%[0-9A-F]{2})*)?";

function isValidURL(url) {

    urlPattern = "^" + urlPattern + "$";
    var regex = new RegExp(urlPattern);

    return regex.test(url);

}

Like what @S.Mark said, I basically took the "java" way of doing Regular Expression in Javascript.

In Java, you would just done it the following way (see how the expression is the same).

String urlPattern = "(https?|ftp)://(www\\.)?(((([a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\\.){1,}[a-zA-Z]{2,4}|localhost))|((\\d{1,3}\\.){3}(\\d{1,3})))(:(\\d+))?(/([a-zA-Z0-9-._~!$&'()*+,;=:@/]|%[0-9A-F]{2})*)?(\\?([a-zA-Z0-9-._~!$&'()*+,;=:/?@]|%[0-9A-F]{2})*)?(#([a-zA-Z0-9._-]|%[0-9A-F]{2})*)?";

Hope this helps. PS, this Regular expression works and even validates sites pointing to localhost:port) where port is any digit port number.