Encoding and Decoding Workflow

[willfarrell]

Encoding and decoding a string into multiple variations.

 

https://github.com/willfarrell/alfred-encode-decode-workflow

[tobym]

The decode portion of this workflow fails for me. It drops through to the default "Search Google for '....'". For example:

encode 1,2

 correctly yields 1%2C2 with preview and copy-to-clipboard.

decode 1%2C2

results in the google search option coming up. The same thing happens if I wrap 1%2C2 in quotes.

 

Any ideas?

[willfarrell]

Thanks @tobym,

I looked into it. Turns out the base64 decoder was spitting out chars outside if it's alphabet, that broke the xml encoding. Update pushed to the github repo (v1.5).

[Davide]

Thanks for this, but there is no html encoding for ü, ö, ä.

[willfarrell]

I looked into it.
Using the alfred debugger `alfred -f encode.php -q "ü ö ä"`

 

```

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<items><item uid="URL Encoded" arg="%C3%BC+%C3%B6+%C3%A4" valid="yes" autocomplete=""><title>%C3%BC+%C3%B6+%C3%A4</title><subtitle>URL Encoded</subtitle><icon>icon.png</icon></item><item uid="UTF8 Encoded" arg="ü ö ä" valid="yes" autocomplete=""><title>ü ö ä</title><subtitle>UTF8 Encoded</subtitle><icon>icon.png</icon></item><item uid="HTML Encoded" arg="&uuml; &ouml; &auml;" valid="yes" autocomplete=""><title>&uuml; &ouml; &auml;</title><subtitle>HTML Encoded</subtitle><icon>icon.png</icon></item><item uid="base64 Encoded" arg="w7wgw7Ygw6Q=" valid="yes" autocomplete=""><title>w7wgw7Ygw6Q=</title><subtitle>base64 Encoded</subtitle><icon>icon.png</icon></item></items>

```

 

Looks like the workflow is sending the properly encoded values, for some reason alfred is running into an error on that row. I'm not sure what the issue is.

[deanishe]

I don't pretend to know why (PHP is not my thing), but this test:
 

if ($html_encode != $query)

is failing within Alfred, so the HTML-encoded output isn't added to your $encodes array.

I changed the end of the encode script to:
 

$result = $w->toxml();

file_put_contents('php://stderr', $result);

echo $result;

to verify in the debugger. No idea why, but when run within Alfred, this is the XML output:
 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<items><item uid="URL Encoded" arg="u%CC%88+a%CC%88" valid="yes" autocomplete=""><title>u%CC%88+a%CC%88</title><subtitle>URL Encoded</subtitle><icon>icon.png</icon></item><item uid="UTF8 Encoded" arg="uÌ aÌ" valid="yes" autocomplete=""><title>uÌ aÌ</title><subtitle>UTF8 Encoded</subtitle><icon>icon.png</icon></item><item uid="base64 Encoded" arg="dcyIIGHMiA==" valid="yes" autocomplete=""><title>dcyIIGHMiA==</title><subtitle>base64 Encoded</subtitle><icon>icon.png</icon></item></items>

But on the command line, this is the output:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<items><item uid="URL Encoded" arg="%C3%BC+%C3%A4" valid="yes" autocomplete=""><title>%C3%BC+%C3%A4</title><subtitle>URL Encoded</subtitle><icon>icon.png</icon></item><item uid="UTF8 Encoded" arg="ü ä" valid="yes" autocomplete=""><title>ü ä</title><subtitle>UTF8 Encoded</subtitle><icon>icon.png</icon></item><item uid="HTML Encoded" arg="&uuml; &auml;" valid="yes" autocomplete=""><title>&uuml; &auml;</title><subtitle>HTML Encoded</subtitle><icon>icon.png</icon></item><item uid="base64 Encoded" arg="w7wgw6Q=" valid="yes" autocomplete=""><title>w7wgw6Q=</title><subtitle>base64 Encoded</subtitle><icon>icon.png</icon></item></items>

Also, what's the intention of the UTF-8-encoded output? As far as I can tell, you're UTF-8 encoding text that is already UTF-8 encoded (the input), and nonsense is coming out: