我想创建一个URL缩短服务,你可以写一个长URL到输入字段和服务缩短URL为“http://www.example.org/abcdef”。

可以用包含a-z, a-z和0-9的6个字符的字符串代替"abcdef"。这样就有560 ~ 570亿个可能的字符串。

我的方法:

我有一个有三列的数据库表:

Id,整数,自动递增 long, string,用户输入的长URL 短,字符串,缩短的URL(或只有六个字符)

然后将长URL插入到表中。然后,我将为“id”选择自动递增的值,并构建它的散列。这个散列应该作为“short”插入。但是我应该构建什么样的哈希呢?像MD5这样的哈希算法会创建太长的字符串。我认为我不用这些算法。一个自建的算法也可以。

我的想法:

对于“http://www.google.de/”,我得到了自动增量id 239472。然后我执行以下步骤:

short = '';
if divisible by 2, add "a"+the result to short
if divisible by 3, add "b"+the result to short
... until I have divisors for a-z and A-Z.

可以不断重复,直到这个数不能被整除为止。你认为这是一个好方法吗?你有更好的主意吗?

由于对这个主题的持续兴趣,我已经发布了一个高效的GitHub解决方案,包括JavaScript、PHP、Python和Java的实现。如果你喜欢,添加你的解决方案:)


当前回答

Scala中的实现:

class Encoder(alphabet: String) extends (Long => String) {

  val Base = alphabet.size

  override def apply(number: Long) = {
    def encode(current: Long): List[Int] = {
      if (current == 0) Nil
      else (current % Base).toInt :: encode(current / Base)
    }
    encode(number).reverse
      .map(current => alphabet.charAt(current)).mkString
  }
}

class Decoder(alphabet: String) extends (String => Long) {

  val Base = alphabet.size

  override def apply(string: String) = {
    def decode(current: Long, encodedPart: String): Long = {
      if (encodedPart.size == 0) current
      else decode(current * Base + alphabet.indexOf(encodedPart.head),encodedPart.tail)
    }
    decode(0,string)
  }
}

使用Scala测试的测试示例:

import org.scalatest.{FlatSpec, Matchers}

class DecoderAndEncoderTest extends FlatSpec with Matchers {

  val Alphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789"

  "A number with base 10" should "be correctly encoded into base 62 string" in {
    val encoder = new Encoder(Alphabet)
    encoder(127) should be ("cd")
    encoder(543513414) should be ("KWGPy")
  }

  "A base 62 string" should "be correctly decoded into a number with base 10" in {
    val decoder = new Decoder(Alphabet)
    decoder("cd") should be (127)
    decoder("KWGPy") should be (543513414)
  }

}

其他回答

这是一个不错的PHP URL编码函数…

// From http://snipplr.com/view/22246/base62-encode--decode/
private function base_encode($val, $base=62, $chars='0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ') {
    $str = '';
    do {
        $i = fmod($val, $base);
        $str = $chars[$i] . $str;
        $val = ($val - $i) / $base;
    } while($val > 0);
    return $str;
}

如果你不想重新发明轮子……http://lilurl.sourceforge.net/

public class TinyUrl {
    
        private final String characterMap = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789";
        private final int charBase = characterMap.length();
    
        public String covertToCharacter(int num){
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    
            while (num > 0){
                sb.append(characterMap.charAt(num % charBase));
                num /= charBase;
            }
    
            return sb.reverse().toString();
        }
    
        public int covertToInteger(String str){
            int num = 0;
            for(int i = 0 ; i< str.length(); i++)
                num += characterMap.indexOf(str.charAt(i)) * Math.pow(charBase , (str.length() - (i + 1)));
    
            return num;
        }
}
    
class TinyUrlTest{
    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        TinyUrl tinyUrl = new TinyUrl();
        int num = 122312215;
        String url = tinyUrl.covertToCharacter(num);
        System.out.println("Tiny url:  " + url);
        System.out.println("Id: " + tinyUrl.covertToInteger(url));
    }
}
public class UrlShortener {
    private static final String ALPHABET = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789";
    private static final int    BASE     = ALPHABET.length();

    public static String encode(int num) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        while ( num > 0 ) {
            sb.append( ALPHABET.charAt( num % BASE ) );
            num /= BASE;
        }
        return sb.reverse().toString();   
    }

    public static int decode(String str) {
        int num = 0;
        for ( int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++ )
            num = num * BASE + ALPHABET.indexOf(str.charAt(i));
        return num;
    }   
}

我有一个问题的变体,因为我存储了来自许多不同作者的网页,需要防止通过猜测发现页面。所以我的短url在Base-62字符串中添加了几个额外的数字作为页码。这些额外的数字是由页面记录本身的信息生成的,它们确保3844个url中只有一个是有效的(假设2位Base-62)。您可以在http://mgscan.com/MBWL上看到概要描述。