Struct HeaderName

pub struct HeaderName { /* private fields */ }

Represents an HTTP header field name

Header field names identify the header. Header sets may include multiple headers with the same name. The HTTP specification defines a number of standard headers, but HTTP messages may include non-standard header names as well as long as they adhere to the specification.

HeaderName is used as the HeaderMap key. Constants are available for all standard header names in the header module.

Representation

HeaderName represents standard header names using an enum, as such they will not require an allocation for storage. All custom header names are lower cased upon conversion to a HeaderName value. This avoids the overhead of dynamically doing lower case conversion during the hash code computation and the comparison operation.

Implementations

impl HeaderName

pub fn from_bytes(src: &[u8]) -> Result<HeaderName, InvalidHeaderName>

Converts a slice of bytes to an HTTP header name.

This function normalizes the input.

pub fn from_lowercase(src: &[u8]) -> Result<HeaderName, InvalidHeaderName>

Converts a slice of bytes to an HTTP header name.

This function expects the input to only contain lowercase characters. This is useful when decoding HTTP/2.0 or HTTP/3.0 headers. Both require that all headers be represented in lower case.

Examples

// Parsing a lower case header
let hdr = HeaderName::from_lowercase(b"content-length").unwrap();
assert_eq!(CONTENT_LENGTH, hdr);

// Parsing a header that contains uppercase characters
assert!(HeaderName::from_lowercase(b"Content-Length").is_err());

pub const fn from_static(src: &'static str) -> HeaderName

Converts a static string to a HTTP header name.

This function requires the static string to only contain lowercase characters, numerals and symbols, as per the HTTP/2.0 specification and header names internal representation within this library.

Panics

This function panics when the static string is a invalid header.

Until Allow panicking in constants makes its way into stable, the panic message at compile-time is going to look cryptic, but should at least point at your header value:

error: any use of this value will cause an error
    --> http/src/header/name.rs:1241:13
     |
1241 |             ([] as [u8; 0])[0]; // Invalid header name
     |             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     |             |
     |             index out of bounds: the length is 0 but the index is 0
     |             inside `http::HeaderName::from_static` at http/src/header/name.rs:1241:13
     |             inside `INVALID_NAME` at src/main.rs:3:34
     |
    ::: src/main.rs:3:1
     |
3    | const INVALID_NAME: HeaderName = HeaderName::from_static("Capitalized");
     | ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Examples

// Parsing a standard header
let hdr = HeaderName::from_static("content-length");
assert_eq!(CONTENT_LENGTH, hdr);

// Parsing a custom header
let CUSTOM_HEADER: &'static str = "custom-header";

let a = HeaderName::from_lowercase(b"custom-header").unwrap();
let b = HeaderName::from_static(CUSTOM_HEADER);
assert_eq!(a, b);

// Parsing a header that contains invalid symbols(s):
HeaderName::from_static("content{}{}length"); // This line panics!

// Parsing a header that contains invalid uppercase characters.
let a = HeaderName::from_static("foobar");
let b = HeaderName::from_static("FOOBAR"); // This line panics!

pub fn as_str(&self) -> &str

Returns a str representation of the header.

The returned string will always be lower case.

Trait Implementations

impl AsRef<[u8]> for HeaderName

fn as_ref(&self) -> &[u8]

Converts this type into a shared reference of the (usually inferred) input type.

impl AsRef<str> for HeaderName

fn as_ref(&self) -> &str

Converts this type into a shared reference of the (usually inferred) input type.

impl Borrow<str> for HeaderName

fn borrow(&self) -> &str

Immutably borrows from an owned value.

impl Clone for HeaderName

fn clone(&self) -> HeaderName

Returns a copy of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Debug for HeaderName

fn fmt(&self, fmt: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl Display for HeaderName

fn fmt(&self, fmt: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl<'a> From<&'a HeaderName> for HeaderName

fn from(src: &'a HeaderName) -> HeaderName

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl From<HeaderName> for HeaderValue

fn from(h: HeaderName) -> HeaderValue

Converts to this type from the input type.

impl FromStr for HeaderName

type Err = InvalidHeaderName

The associated error which can be returned from parsing.

fn from_str(s: &str) -> Result<HeaderName, InvalidHeaderName>

Parses a string s to return a value of this type.

impl Hash for HeaderName

fn hash<__H: Hasher>(&self, state: &mut __H)

Feeds this value into the given Hasher.

fn hash_slice<H>(data: &[Self], state: &mut H)

where H: Hasher, Self: Sized,

Feeds a slice of this type into the given Hasher.

impl<'a> PartialEq<&'a HeaderName> for HeaderName

fn eq(&self, other: &&'a HeaderName) -> bool

Tests for self and other values to be equal, and is used by ==.

fn ne(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool

Tests for !=. The default implementation is almost always sufficient, and should not be overridden without very good reason.

impl<'a> PartialEq<&'a str> for HeaderName

fn eq(&self, other: &&'a str) -> bool

Performs a case-insensitive comparison of the string against the header name

fn ne(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool

Tests for !=. The default implementation is almost always sufficient, and should not be overridden without very good reason.

impl<'a> PartialEq<HeaderName> for &'a HeaderName

fn eq(&self, other: &HeaderName) -> bool

Tests for self and other values to be equal, and is used by ==.

fn ne(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool

Tests for !=. The default implementation is almost always sufficient, and should not be overridden without very good reason.

impl<'a> PartialEq<HeaderName> for &'a str

fn eq(&self, other: &HeaderName) -> bool

Performs a case-insensitive comparison of the string against the header name

fn ne(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool

Tests for !=. The default implementation is almost always sufficient, and should not be overridden without very good reason.

impl PartialEq<HeaderName> for str

fn eq(&self, other: &HeaderName) -> bool

Performs a case-insensitive comparison of the string against the header name

Examples

use http::header::CONTENT_LENGTH;

assert_eq!(CONTENT_LENGTH, "content-length");
assert_eq!(CONTENT_LENGTH, "Content-Length");
assert_ne!(CONTENT_LENGTH, "content length");

fn ne(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool

Tests for !=. The default implementation is almost always sufficient, and should not be overridden without very good reason.

impl PartialEq<str> for HeaderName

fn eq(&self, other: &str) -> bool

Performs a case-insensitive comparison of the string against the header name

Examples

use http::header::CONTENT_LENGTH;

assert_eq!(CONTENT_LENGTH, "content-length");
assert_eq!(CONTENT_LENGTH, "Content-Length");
assert_ne!(CONTENT_LENGTH, "content length");

fn ne(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool

Tests for !=. The default implementation is almost always sufficient, and should not be overridden without very good reason.

impl PartialEq for HeaderName

fn eq(&self, other: &HeaderName) -> bool

Tests for self and other values to be equal, and is used by ==.

fn ne(&self, other: &Rhs) -> bool

Tests for !=. The default implementation is almost always sufficient, and should not be overridden without very good reason.

impl<'a> TryFrom<&'a [u8]> for HeaderName

type Error = InvalidHeaderName

The type returned in the event of a conversion error.

fn try_from(s: &'a [u8]) -> Result<Self, Self::Error>

Performs the conversion.

impl<'a> TryFrom<&'a String> for HeaderName

type Error = InvalidHeaderName

The type returned in the event of a conversion error.

fn try_from(s: &'a String) -> Result<Self, Self::Error>

Performs the conversion.

impl<'a> TryFrom<&'a str> for HeaderName

type Error = InvalidHeaderName

The type returned in the event of a conversion error.

fn try_from(s: &'a str) -> Result<Self, Self::Error>

Performs the conversion.

impl TryFrom<String> for HeaderName

type Error = InvalidHeaderName

The type returned in the event of a conversion error.

fn try_from(s: String) -> Result<Self, Self::Error>

Performs the conversion.

impl TryFrom<Vec<u8>> for HeaderName

type Error = InvalidHeaderName

The type returned in the event of a conversion error.

fn try_from(vec: Vec<u8>) -> Result<Self, Self::Error>

Performs the conversion.

impl<'a> AsHeaderName for &'a HeaderName

impl AsHeaderName for HeaderName

impl Eq for HeaderName

impl<'a> IntoHeaderName for &'a HeaderName

impl IntoHeaderName for HeaderName

impl StructuralPartialEq for HeaderName