Parse a URI using the browser's DOM (CoffeeScript)

parseUri.coffee

class UriHelpers
    parseUri: (url) ->
        k = window.Common.UrlHelpers.UriParseModes
        a || (a = window.document.createElement('a'))

        #Let browser do the work
        a.href = url
        r = {}
        
        r[k[i]] = a[k[i]] for i in [0..8]
        
        r.toString = -> ( a.href )
        r.requestUri = r.pathname + r.search
        r


window.Common = window.Common || {}
window.Common.UriHelpers = window.Common.UriHelpers|| new UrlHelpers()
window.Common.UriParseModes = window.Common.UriParseModes || 'protocol hostname host pathname port search hash href'.split ' '