I'm writing a parser for HTTP Authorization header (see RFC2616#14.8 and RFC2617#1.2). Note that I explicitly don't care about the base64-encoded syntax used by HTTP Basic authentication. I'm only interested in the auth-param syntax used by Digest authentication (to be more specific, I'm implementing a custom Authorization header similar to this question on SO). Basically, it's just a list of key=value pairs separated by commas and value could be quoted or unquoted.
Here's my code, which seems to parse the examples from the RFC just fine:
package com.example.sample;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
public class AuthorizationHeaderParser {
private static final String SEPARATORS = "()<>@,;:\\\\\"/\\[\\]?={} \t";
private static final Pattern TOKEN_PATTERN = Pattern
.compile("[[\\p{ASCII}]&&[^" + SEPARATORS + "]&&[^\\p{Cntrl}]]+");
private static final Pattern EQ_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("=");
private static final Pattern TOKEN_QUOTED_PATTERN = Pattern
.compile("\"([^\"]|\\\\\\p{ASCII})*\"");
private static final Pattern COMMA_PATTERN = Pattern.compile(",");
private static final Pattern LWS_PATTERN = Pattern
.compile("(\r?\n)?[ \t]+");
private static class Tokenizer {
private String remaining;
public Tokenizer(String input) {
remaining = input;
}
private void skipSpaces() {
Matcher m = LWS_PATTERN.matcher(remaining);
if (!m.lookingAt()) {
return;
}
String match = m.group();
remaining = remaining.substring(match.length());
}
public String match(Pattern p) {
skipSpaces();
Matcher m = p.matcher(remaining);
if (!m.lookingAt()) {
return null;
}
String match = m.group();
remaining = remaining.substring(match.length());
return match;
}
public String mustMatch(Pattern p) {
String match = match(p);
if (match == null) {
throw new NoSuchElementException();
}
return match;
}
public boolean hasMore() {
skipSpaces();
return remaining.length() > 0;
}
}
public static Map<String, String> parse(String input) {
Tokenizer t = new Tokenizer(input);
Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
String authScheme = t.match(TOKEN_PATTERN);
map.put(":auth-scheme", authScheme);
while (true) {
while (t.match(COMMA_PATTERN) != null) {
// Skip null list elements
}
if (!t.hasMore()) {
break;
}
String key = t.mustMatch(TOKEN_PATTERN);
t.mustMatch(EQ_PATTERN);
String value = t.match(TOKEN_PATTERN);
if (value == null) {
value = t.mustMatch(TOKEN_QUOTED_PATTERN);
// trim quotes
value = value.substring(1, value.length() - 1);
}
map.put(key, value);
if (t.hasMore()) {
t.mustMatch(COMMA_PATTERN);
}
}
return map;
}
public static void main(String args[]) {
String test1 = "Digest\n"
+ " realm=\"[email protected]\",\n"
+ " qop=\"auth,auth-int\",\n"
+ " nonce=\"dcd98b7102dd2f0e8b11d0f600bfb0c093\",\n"
+ " opaque=\"5ccc069c403ebaf9f0171e9517f40e41\"";
String test2 = "Digest username=\"Mufasa\",\n"
+ " realm=\"[email protected]\",\n"
+ " nonce=\"dcd98b7102dd2f0e8b11d0f600bfb0c093\",\n"
+ " uri=\"/dir/index.html\",\n"
+ " qop=auth,\n"
+ " nc=00000001,\n"
+ " cnonce=\"0a4f113b\",\n"
+ " response=\"6629fae49393a05397450978507c4ef1\",\n"
+ " opaque=\"5ccc069c403ebaf9f0171e9517f40e41\"";
System.out.println(parse(test1));
System.out.println(parse(test2));
}
}
My questions:
- For something as simple as this, is my approach (using regex) good enough or should I write a "real" parser?
- Is my translation from the RFC BNF to regex correct, or have I made any mistakes that fail on a valid header or pass an invalid header?
- The regular expressions seem too complex, can they be simplified?
- Any other suggestions?
