Re: encode/decode support for base64url

From: Florents Tselai <florents(dot)tselai(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Przemysław Sztoch <przemyslaw(at)sztoch(dot)pl>
Subject: Re: encode/decode support for base64url
Date: 2025-03-10 12:43:15
Message-ID: CA+v5N423WDLNVg_VoQGSZqFnH6zATdd483x0+ApuMx0E8xRbnA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 14:32 Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:

> > On 10 Mar 2025, at 12:28, Florents Tselai <florents(dot)tselai(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
> > Here's a C implementation for this, along with some tests and
> documentation.
> > Tests are copied from cpython's implementation of urlsafe_b64encode and
> urlsafe_b64decode.
>
> + <function>base64url_encode</function> (
> <parameter>input</parameter> <type>bytea</type> )
>
> Shouldn't this be modelled around how base64 works with the encode() and
> decode() functions, ie encode('123\001', 'base64')?
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/functions-binarystring.html
>
> --
> Daniel Gustafsson
>

Oh well - you're probably right.
I guess I was blinded by my convenience.
Adding a 'base64url' option there is more appropriate.

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