Module: Twitter::Validation

Extended by:
Validation
Included in:
Validation
Defined in:
lib/twitter-text/validation.rb

Constant Summary collapse

MAX_LENGTH = 
140
DEFAULT_TCO_URL_LENGTHS = 
{
  :short_url_length => 23,
  :short_url_length_https => 23,
  :characters_reserved_per_media => 23
}.freeze
VALID_LIST_RE = 
/\A#{Twitter::Regex[:valid_mention_or_list]}\z/o

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#tweet_invalid?(text) ⇒ Boolean

Check the text for any reason that it may not be valid as a Tweet. This is meant as a pre-validation before posting to api.twitter.com. There are several server-side reasons for Tweets to fail but this pre-validation will allow quicker feedback.

Returns false if this text is valid. Otherwise one of the following Symbols will be returned:

<tt>:too_long</tt>:: if the <tt>text</tt> is too long
<tt>:empty</tt>:: if the <tt>text</tt> is nil or empty
<tt>:invalid_characters</tt>:: if the <tt>text</tt> contains non-Unicode or any of the disallowed Unicode characters

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/twitter-text/validation.rb', line 47

def tweet_invalid?(text)
  return :empty if !text || text.empty?
  begin
    return :too_long if tweet_length(text) > MAX_LENGTH
    return :invalid_characters if Twitter::Regex::INVALID_CHARACTERS.any?{|invalid_char| text.include?(invalid_char) }
  rescue ArgumentError
    # non-Unicode value.
    return :invalid_characters
  end

  return false
end

#tweet_length(text, options = {}) ⇒ Object

Returns the length of the string as it would be displayed. This is equivilent to the length of the Unicode NFC (See: www.unicode.org/reports/tr15). This is needed in order to consistently calculate the length of a string no matter which actual form was transmitted. For example:

U+0065  Latin Small Letter E

+ U+0301 Combining Acute Accent

2 bytes, 2 characters, displayed as é (1 visual glyph)

… The NFC of {U+0065, U+0301} is {U+00E9}, which is a single chracter and a +display_length+ of 1

The string could also contain U+00E9 already, in which case the canonicalization will not change the value.



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# File 'lib/twitter-text/validation.rb', line 25

def tweet_length(text, options = {})
  options = DEFAULT_TCO_URL_LENGTHS.merge(options)

  length = text.to_nfc.unpack("U*").length

  Twitter::Extractor.extract_urls_with_indices(text) do |url, start_position, end_position|
    length += start_position - end_position
    length += url.downcase =~ /^https:\/\// ? options[:short_url_length_https] : options[:short_url_length]
  end

  length
end

#valid_hashtag?(hashtag) ⇒ Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/twitter-text/validation.rb', line 79

def valid_hashtag?(hashtag)
  return false if !hashtag || hashtag.empty?

  extracted = Twitter::Extractor.extract_hashtags(hashtag)
  # Should extract the hashtag minus the # sign, hence the [1..-1]
  extracted.size == 1 && extracted.first == hashtag[1..-1]
end

#valid_list?(username_list) ⇒ Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/twitter-text/validation.rb', line 73

def valid_list?(username_list)
  match = username_list.match(VALID_LIST_RE)
  # Must have matched and had nothing before or after
  !!(match && match[1] == "" && match[4] && !match[4].empty?)
end

#valid_tweet_text?(text) ⇒ Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/twitter-text/validation.rb', line 60

def valid_tweet_text?(text)
  !tweet_invalid?(text)
end

#valid_url?(url, unicode_domains = true, require_protocol = true) ⇒ Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/twitter-text/validation.rb', line 87

def valid_url?(url, unicode_domains=true, require_protocol=true)
  return false if !url || url.empty?

  url_parts = url.match(Twitter::Regex[:validate_url_unencoded])
  return false unless (url_parts && url_parts.to_s == url)

  scheme, authority, path, query, fragment = url_parts.captures

  return false unless ((!require_protocol ||
                       (valid_match?(scheme, Twitter::Regex[:validate_url_scheme]) && scheme.match(/\Ahttps?\Z/i))) &&
                       valid_match?(path, Twitter::Regex[:validate_url_path]) &&
                       valid_match?(query, Twitter::Regex[:validate_url_query], true) &&
                       valid_match?(fragment, Twitter::Regex[:validate_url_fragment], true))

  return (unicode_domains && valid_match?(authority, Twitter::Regex[:validate_url_unicode_authority])) ||
         (!unicode_domains && valid_match?(authority, Twitter::Regex[:validate_url_authority]))
end

#valid_username?(username) ⇒ Boolean

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/twitter-text/validation.rb', line 64

def valid_username?(username)
  return false if !username || username.empty?

  extracted = Twitter::Extractor.extract_mentioned_screen_names(username)
  # Should extract the username minus the @ sign, hence the [1..-1]
  extracted.size == 1 && extracted.first == username[1..-1]
end