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svn commit: r588054 - in /commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator: EmailValidator.java UrlValidator.java routines/EmailValidator.java routines/UrlValidator.java

Author: bspeakmon
Date: Wed Oct 24 15:12:12 2007
New Revision: 588054

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=588054&view=rev
Log:
- VALIDATOR-203/VALIDATOR-242: moving Email/UrlValidators to routines package and deprecating
  existing ones

Added:
    commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/EmailValidator.java
    commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidator.java
Modified:
    commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/EmailValidator.java
    commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/UrlValidator.java

Modified: commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/EmailValidator.java
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/EmailValidator.java?rev=588054&r1=588053&r2=588054&view=diff
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--- commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/EmailValidator.java (original)
+++ commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/EmailValidator.java Wed Oct 24 15:12:12 2007
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
  *
  * @version $Revision$ $Date$
  * @since Validator 1.1
+ * @deprecated Use the new EmailValidator in the routines package. This class
+ * will be removed in a future release.
  */
 public class EmailValidator {
 

Modified: commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/UrlValidator.java
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/UrlValidator.java?rev=588054&r1=588053&r2=588054&view=diff
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--- commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/UrlValidator.java (original)
+++ commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/UrlValidator.java Wed Oct 24 15:12:12 2007
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@
  *
  * @version $Revision$ $Date$
  * @since Validator 1.1
+ * @deprecated Use the new UrlValidator in the routines package. This class
+ * will be removed in a future release.
  */
 public class UrlValidator implements Serializable {
 

Added: commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/EmailValidator.java
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/EmailValidator.java?rev=588054&view=auto
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--- commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/EmailValidator.java (added)
+++ commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/EmailValidator.java Wed Oct 24 15:12:12 2007
@@ -0,0 +1,232 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.validator.routines;
+
+import org.apache.oro.text.perl.Perl5Util;
+
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+/**
+ * <p>Perform email validations.</p>
+ * <p>
+ * This class is a Singleton; you can retrieve the instance via the getInstance() method.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * Based on a script by <a href="mailto:stamhankar@hotmail.com">Sandeep V. Tamhankar</a>
+ * http://javascript.internet.com
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * This implementation is not guaranteed to catch all possible errors in an email address.
+ * For example, an address like nobody@noplace.somedog will pass validator, even though there
+ * is no TLD "somedog"
+ * </p>.
+ *
+ * @version $Revision: 586637 $ $Date: 2007-10-19 15:56:56 -0700 (Fri, 19 Oct 2007) $
+ * @since Validator 1.4
+ */
+public class EmailValidator {
+
+    private static final String SPECIAL_CHARS = "\\000-\\037\\(\\)<>@,;:'\\\\\\\"\\.\\[\\]\\177";
+    private static final String VALID_CHARS = "[^\\s" + SPECIAL_CHARS + "]";
+    private static final String QUOTED_USER = "(\"[^\"]*\")";
+    private static final String ATOM = VALID_CHARS + '+';
+    private static final String WORD = "((" + VALID_CHARS + "|')+|" + QUOTED_USER + ")";
+
+    // Each pattern must be surrounded by /
+    private static final String LEGAL_ASCII_PATTERN = "/^[\\000-\\177]+$/";
+    private static final String EMAIL_PATTERN = "/^(.+)@(.+)$/";
+    private static final String IP_DOMAIN_PATTERN = "^\\[(.*)\\]$";
+    private static final String TLD_PATTERN = "/^([a-zA-Z]+)$/";
+
+    private static final String USER_PATTERN = "/^\\s*" + WORD + "(\\." + WORD + ")*$/";
+    private static final String DOMAIN_PATTERN = "/^" + ATOM + "(\\." + ATOM + ")*\\s*$/";
+    private static final String ATOM_PATTERN = "/(" + ATOM + ")/";
+
+    /**
+     * Singleton instance of this class.
+     */
+    private static final EmailValidator EMAIL_VALIDATOR = new EmailValidator();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the Singleton instance of this validator.
+     * @return singleton instance of this validator.
+     */
+    public static EmailValidator getInstance() {
+        return EMAIL_VALIDATOR;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Protected constructor for subclasses to use.
+     */
+    protected EmailValidator() {
+        super();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * <p>Checks if a field has a valid e-mail address.</p>
+     *
+     * @param email The value validation is being performed on.  A <code>null</code>
+     * value is considered invalid.
+     * @return true if the email address is valid.
+     */
+    public boolean isValid(String email) {
+        if (email == null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        Perl5Util matchAsciiPat = new Perl5Util();
+        if (!matchAsciiPat.match(LEGAL_ASCII_PATTERN, email)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        email = stripComments(email);
+
+        // Check the whole email address structure
+        Perl5Util emailMatcher = new Perl5Util();
+        if (!emailMatcher.match(EMAIL_PATTERN, email)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        if (email.endsWith(".")) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        if (!isValidUser(emailMatcher.group(1))) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        if (!isValidDomain(emailMatcher.group(2))) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the domain component of an email address is valid.
+     * @param domain being validated.
+     * @return true if the email address's domain is valid.
+     */
+    protected boolean isValidDomain(String domain) {
+        boolean symbolic = false;
+
+        // see if domain is an IP address in brackets
+        Pattern ipDomainPattern = Pattern.compile(IP_DOMAIN_PATTERN);
+        Matcher ipDomainMatcher = ipDomainPattern.matcher(domain);
+
+        if (ipDomainMatcher.matches()) {
+            InetAddressValidator inetAddressValidator =
+                    InetAddressValidator.getInstance();
+            if (inetAddressValidator.isValid(ipDomainMatcher.group(1))) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        } else {
+            // Domain is symbolic name
+            Perl5Util domainMatcher = new Perl5Util();
+            symbolic = domainMatcher.match(DOMAIN_PATTERN, domain);
+        }
+
+        if (symbolic) {
+            if (!isValidSymbolicDomain(domain)) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        } else {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the user component of an email address is valid.
+     * @param user being validated
+     * @return true if the user name is valid.
+     */
+    protected boolean isValidUser(String user) {
+        Perl5Util userMatcher = new Perl5Util();
+        return userMatcher.match(USER_PATTERN, user);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Validates a symbolic domain name.  Returns true if it's valid.
+     * @param domain symbolic domain name
+     * @return true if the symbolic domain name is valid.
+     */
+    protected boolean isValidSymbolicDomain(String domain) {
+        String[] domainSegment = new String[10];
+        boolean match = true;
+        int i = 0;
+        Perl5Util atomMatcher = new Perl5Util();
+        while (match) {
+            match = atomMatcher.match(ATOM_PATTERN, domain);
+            if (match) {
+                domainSegment[i] = atomMatcher.group(1);
+                int l = domainSegment[i].length() + 1;
+                domain =
+                        (l >= domain.length())
+                        ? ""
+                        : domain.substring(l);
+
+                i++;
+            }
+        }
+
+        int len = i;
+
+        // Make sure there's a host name preceding the domain.
+        if (len < 2) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        // TODO: the tld should be checked against some sort of configurable
+        // list
+        String tld = domainSegment[len - 1];
+        if (tld.length() > 1) {
+            Perl5Util matchTldPat = new Perl5Util();
+            if (!matchTldPat.match(TLD_PATTERN, tld)) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        } else {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        return true;
+    }
+    /**
+     *   Recursively remove comments, and replace with a single space.  The simpler
+     *   regexps in the Email Addressing FAQ are imperfect - they will miss escaped
+     *   chars in atoms, for example.
+     *   Derived From    Mail::RFC822::Address
+     * @param emailStr The email address
+     * @return address with comments removed.
+    */
+    protected String stripComments(String emailStr)  {
+     String input = emailStr;
+     String result = emailStr;
+     String commentPat = "s/^((?:[^\"\\\\]|\\\\.)*(?:\"(?:[^\"\\\\]|\\\\.)*\"(?:[^\"\\\\]|\111111\\\\.)*)*)\\((?:[^()\\\\]|\\\\.)*\\)/$1 /osx";
+     Perl5Util commentMatcher = new Perl5Util();
+     result = commentMatcher.substitute(commentPat,input);
+     // This really needs to be =~ or Perl5Matcher comparison
+     while (!result.equals(input)) {
+        input = result;
+        result = commentMatcher.substitute(commentPat,input);
+     }
+     return result;
+
+    }
+}

Added: commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidator.java
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidator.java?rev=588054&view=auto
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--- commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidator.java (added)
+++ commons/proper/validator/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidator.java Wed Oct 24 15:12:12 2007
@@ -0,0 +1,477 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.validator.routines;
+
+import org.apache.commons.validator.GenericValidator;
+import org.apache.commons.validator.util.Flags;
+import org.apache.oro.text.perl.Perl5Util;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * <p>Validates URLs.</p>
+ * Behavour of validation is modified by passing in options:
+ * <li>ALLOW_2_SLASHES - [FALSE]  Allows double '/' characters in the path
+ * component.</li>
+ * <li>NO_FRAGMENT- [FALSE]  By default fragments are allowed, if this option is
+ * included then fragments are flagged as illegal.</li>
+ * <li>ALLOW_ALL_SCHEMES - [FALSE] By default only http, https, and ftp are
+ * considered valid schemes.  Enabling this option will let any scheme pass validation.</li>
+ *
+ * <p>Originally based in on php script by Debbie Dyer, validation.php v1.2b, Date: 03/07/02,
+ * http://javascript.internet.com. However, this validation now bears little resemblance
+ * to the php original.</p>
+ * <pre>
+ *   Example of usage:
+ *   Construct a UrlValidator with valid schemes of "http", and "https".
+ *
+ *    String[] schemes = {"http","https"}.
+ *    UrlValidator urlValidator = new UrlValidator(schemes);
+ *    if (urlValidator.isValid("ftp://foo.bar.com/")) {
+ *       System.out.println("url is valid");
+ *    } else {
+ *       System.out.println("url is invalid");
+ *    }
+ *
+ *    prints "url is invalid"
+ *   If instead the default constructor is used.
+ *
+ *    UrlValidator urlValidator = new UrlValidator();
+ *    if (urlValidator.isValid("ftp://foo.bar.com/")) {
+ *       System.out.println("url is valid");
+ *    } else {
+ *       System.out.println("url is invalid");
+ *    }
+ *
+ *   prints out "url is valid"
+ *  </pre>
+ *
+ * @see
+ * <a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt' >
+ *  Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax
+ * </a>
+ *
+ * @version $Revision: 586645 $ $Date: 2007-10-19 17:01:09 -0700 (Fri, 19 Oct 2007) $
+ * @since Validator 1.4
+ */
+public class UrlValidator implements Serializable {
+
+    /**
+     * Allows all validly formatted schemes to pass validation instead of
+     * supplying a set of valid schemes.
+     */
+    public static final int ALLOW_ALL_SCHEMES = 1 << 0;
+
+    /**
+     * Allow two slashes in the path component of the URL.
+     */
+    public static final int ALLOW_2_SLASHES = 1 << 1;
+
+    /**
+     * Enabling this options disallows any URL fragments.
+     */
+    public static final int NO_FRAGMENTS = 1 << 2;
+
+    private static final String ALPHA_CHARS = "a-zA-Z";
+
+    private static final String ALPHA_NUMERIC_CHARS = ALPHA_CHARS + "\\d";
+
+    private static final String SPECIAL_CHARS = ";/@&=,.?:+$";
+
+    private static final String VALID_CHARS = "[^\\s" + SPECIAL_CHARS + "]";
+
+    private static final String SCHEME_CHARS = ALPHA_CHARS;
+
+    // Drop numeric, and  "+-." for now
+    private static final String AUTHORITY_CHARS = ALPHA_NUMERIC_CHARS + "\\-\\.";
+
+    private static final String ATOM = VALID_CHARS + '+';
+
+    /**
+     * This expression derived/taken from the BNF for URI (RFC2396).
+     */
+    private static final String URL_PATTERN =
+            "/^(([^:/?#]+):)?(//([^/?#]*))?([^?#]*)(\\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?/";
+    //                                                                      12            3  4          5       6   7        8 9
+
+    /**
+     * Schema/Protocol (ie. http:, ftp:, file:, etc).
+     */
+    private static final int PARSE_URL_SCHEME = 2;
+
+    /**
+     * Includes hostname/ip and port number.
+     */
+    private static final int PARSE_URL_AUTHORITY = 4;
+
+    private static final int PARSE_URL_PATH = 5;
+
+    private static final int PARSE_URL_QUERY = 7;
+
+    private static final int PARSE_URL_FRAGMENT = 9;
+
+    /**
+     * Protocol (ie. http:, ftp:,https:).
+     */
+    private static final String SCHEME_PATTERN = "/^[" + SCHEME_CHARS + "]/";
+
+    private static final String AUTHORITY_PATTERN =
+            "/^([" + AUTHORITY_CHARS + "]*)(:\\d*)?(.*)?/";
+    //                                                                            1                          2  3       4
+
+    private static final int PARSE_AUTHORITY_HOST_IP = 1;
+
+    private static final int PARSE_AUTHORITY_PORT = 2;
+
+    /**
+     * Should always be empty.
+     */
+    private static final int PARSE_AUTHORITY_EXTRA = 3;
+
+    private static final String PATH_PATTERN = "/^(/[-\\w:@&?=+,.!/~*'%$_;]*)?$/";
+
+    private static final String QUERY_PATTERN = "/^(.*)$/";
+
+    private static final String LEGAL_ASCII_PATTERN = "/^[\\000-\\177]+$/";
+
+    private static final String DOMAIN_PATTERN =
+            "/^" + ATOM + "(\\." + ATOM + ")*$/";
+
+    private static final String PORT_PATTERN = "/^:(\\d{1,5})$/";
+
+    private static final String ATOM_PATTERN = "/(" + ATOM + ")/";
+
+    private static final String ALPHA_PATTERN = "/^[" + ALPHA_CHARS + "]/";
+
+    /**
+     * Holds the set of current validation options.
+     */
+    private Flags options = null;
+
+    /**
+     * The set of schemes that are allowed to be in a URL.
+     */
+    private Set allowedSchemes = new HashSet();
+
+    /**
+     * If no schemes are provided, default to this set.
+     */
+    protected String[] defaultSchemes = {"http", "https", "ftp"};
+
+    /**
+     * Create a UrlValidator with default properties.
+     */
+    public UrlValidator() {
+        this(null);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Behavior of validation is modified by passing in several strings options:
+     * @param schemes Pass in one or more url schemes to consider valid, passing in
+     *        a null will default to "http,https,ftp" being valid.
+     *        If a non-null schemes is specified then all valid schemes must
+     *        be specified. Setting the ALLOW_ALL_SCHEMES option will
+     *        ignore the contents of schemes.
+     */
+    public UrlValidator(String[] schemes) {
+        this(schemes, 0);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Initialize a UrlValidator with the given validation options.
+     * @param options The options should be set using the public constants declared in
+     * this class.  To set multiple options you simply add them together.  For example,
+     * ALLOW_2_SLASHES + NO_FRAGMENTS enables both of those options.
+     */
+    public UrlValidator(int options) {
+        this(null, options);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Behavour of validation is modified by passing in options:
+     * @param schemes The set of valid schemes.
+     * @param options The options should be set using the public constants declared in
+     * this class.  To set multiple options you simply add them together.  For example,
+     * ALLOW_2_SLASHES + NO_FRAGMENTS enables both of those options.
+     */
+    public UrlValidator(String[] schemes, int options) {
+        this.options = new Flags(options);
+
+        if (this.options.isOn(ALLOW_ALL_SCHEMES)) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if (schemes == null) {
+            schemes = this.defaultSchemes;
+        }
+
+        this.allowedSchemes.addAll(Arrays.asList(schemes));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * <p>Checks if a field has a valid url address.</p>
+     *
+     * @param value The value validation is being performed on.  A <code>null</code>
+     * value is considered invalid.
+     * @return true if the url is valid.
+     */
+    public boolean isValid(String value) {
+        if (value == null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        Perl5Util matchUrlPat = new Perl5Util();
+        Perl5Util matchAsciiPat = new Perl5Util();
+
+        if (!matchAsciiPat.match(LEGAL_ASCII_PATTERN, value)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        // Check the whole url address structure
+        if (!matchUrlPat.match(URL_PATTERN, value)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        if (!isValidScheme(matchUrlPat.group(PARSE_URL_SCHEME))) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        if (!isValidAuthority(matchUrlPat.group(PARSE_URL_AUTHORITY))) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        if (!isValidPath(matchUrlPat.group(PARSE_URL_PATH))) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        if (!isValidQuery(matchUrlPat.group(PARSE_URL_QUERY))) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        if (!isValidFragment(matchUrlPat.group(PARSE_URL_FRAGMENT))) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Validate scheme. If schemes[] was initialized to a non null,
+     * then only those scheme's are allowed.  Note this is slightly different
+     * than for the constructor.
+     * @param scheme The scheme to validate.  A <code>null</code> value is considered
+     * invalid.
+     * @return true if valid.
+     */
+    protected boolean isValidScheme(String scheme) {
+        if (scheme == null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        Perl5Util schemeMatcher = new Perl5Util();
+        if (!schemeMatcher.match(SCHEME_PATTERN, scheme)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        if (this.options.isOff(ALLOW_ALL_SCHEMES)) {
+
+            if (!this.allowedSchemes.contains(scheme)) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the authority is properly formatted.  An authority is the combination
+     * of hostname and port.  A <code>null</code> authority value is considered invalid.
+     * @param authority Authority value to validate.
+     * @return true if authority (hostname and port) is valid.
+     */
+    protected boolean isValidAuthority(String authority) {
+        if (authority == null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        Perl5Util authorityMatcher = new Perl5Util();
+        InetAddressValidator inetAddressValidator =
+                InetAddressValidator.getInstance();
+
+        if (!authorityMatcher.match(AUTHORITY_PATTERN, authority)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        boolean hostname = false;
+        // check if authority is IP address or hostname
+        String hostIP = authorityMatcher.group(PARSE_AUTHORITY_HOST_IP);
+        boolean ipV4Address = inetAddressValidator.isValid(hostIP);
+
+        if (!ipV4Address) {
+            // Domain is hostname name
+            Perl5Util domainMatcher = new Perl5Util();
+            hostname = domainMatcher.match(DOMAIN_PATTERN, hostIP);
+        }
+
+        //rightmost hostname will never start with a digit.
+        if (hostname) {
+            // LOW-TECH FIX FOR VALIDATOR-202
+            // TODO: Rewrite to use ArrayList and .add semantics: see VALIDATOR-203
+            char[] chars = hostIP.toCharArray();
+            int size = 1;
+            for(int i=0; i<chars.length; i++) {
+                if(chars[i] == '.') {
+                    size++;
+                }
+            }
+            String[] domainSegment = new String[size];
+            boolean match = true;
+            int segmentCount = 0;
+            int segmentLength = 0;
+            Perl5Util atomMatcher = new Perl5Util();
+
+            while (match) {
+                match = atomMatcher.match(ATOM_PATTERN, hostIP);
+                if (match) {
+                    domainSegment[segmentCount] = atomMatcher.group(1);
+                    segmentLength = domainSegment[segmentCount].length() + 1;
+                    hostIP =
+                            (segmentLength >= hostIP.length())
+                            ? ""
+                            : hostIP.substring(segmentLength);
+
+                    segmentCount++;
+                }
+            }
+            String topLevel = domainSegment[segmentCount - 1];
+            if (topLevel.length() < 2 || topLevel.length() > 4) {
+                return false;
+            }
+
+            // First letter of top level must be a alpha
+            Perl5Util alphaMatcher = new Perl5Util();
+            if (!alphaMatcher.match(ALPHA_PATTERN, topLevel.substring(0, 1))) {
+                return false;
+            }
+
+            // Make sure there's a host name preceding the authority.
+            if (segmentCount < 2) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (!hostname && !ipV4Address) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        String port = authorityMatcher.group(PARSE_AUTHORITY_PORT);
+        if (port != null) {
+            Perl5Util portMatcher = new Perl5Util();
+            if (!portMatcher.match(PORT_PATTERN, port)) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+
+        String extra = authorityMatcher.group(PARSE_AUTHORITY_EXTRA);
+        if (!GenericValidator.isBlankOrNull(extra)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the path is valid.  A <code>null</code> value is considered invalid.
+     * @param path Path value to validate.
+     * @return true if path is valid.
+     */
+    protected boolean isValidPath(String path) {
+        if (path == null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        Perl5Util pathMatcher = new Perl5Util();
+
+        if (!pathMatcher.match(PATH_PATTERN, path)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        int slash2Count = countToken("//", path);
+        if (this.options.isOff(ALLOW_2_SLASHES) && (slash2Count > 0)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        int slashCount = countToken("/", path);
+        int dot2Count = countToken("..", path);
+        if (dot2Count > 0) {
+            if ((slashCount - slash2Count - 1) <= dot2Count) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the query is null or it's a properly formatted query string.
+     * @param query Query value to validate.
+     * @return true if query is valid.
+     */
+    protected boolean isValidQuery(String query) {
+        if (query == null) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        Perl5Util queryMatcher = new Perl5Util();
+        return queryMatcher.match(QUERY_PATTERN, query);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the given fragment is null or fragments are allowed.
+     * @param fragment Fragment value to validate.
+     * @return true if fragment is valid.
+     */
+    protected boolean isValidFragment(String fragment) {
+        if (fragment == null) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        return this.options.isOff(NO_FRAGMENTS);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the number of times the token appears in the target.
+     * @param token Token value to be counted.
+     * @param target Target value to count tokens in.
+     * @return the number of tokens.
+     */
+    protected int countToken(String token, String target) {
+        int tokenIndex = 0;
+        int count = 0;
+        while (tokenIndex != -1) {
+            tokenIndex = target.indexOf(token, tokenIndex);
+            if (tokenIndex > -1) {
+                tokenIndex++;
+                count++;
+            }
+        }
+        return count;
+    }
+}