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// redirect rules for URL fragments (client-side) to prevent link rot.
// this must be done on the client side, as web servers do not see the fragment part of the URL.
// it will only work with JavaScript enabled in the browser, but this is the best we can do here.
// see source/_redirects for path redirects (server-side)
// redirects are declared as follows:
// each entry has as its key a path matching the requested URL path, relative to the mdBook document root.
//
// IMPORTANT: it must specify the full path with file name and suffix
//
// each entry is itself a set of key-value pairs, where
// - keys are anchors on the matched path.
// - values are redirection targets relative to the current path.
const redirects = @REDIRECTS_JSON@;
// the following code matches the current page's URL against the set of redirects.
//
// it is written to minimize the latency between page load and redirect.
// therefore we avoid function calls, copying data, and unnecessary loops.
// IMPORTANT: we use stateful array operations and their order matters!
//
// matching URLs is more involved than it should be:
//
// 1. `document.location.pathname` can have an arbitrary prefix.
//
// 2. `path_to_root` is set by mdBook. it consists only of `../`s and
// determines the depth of `<path>` relative to the prefix:
//
// `document.location.pathname`
// |------------------------------|
// /<prefix>/<path>/[<file>[.html]][#<anchor>]
// |----|
// `path_to_root` has same number of path segments
//
// source: https://phaiax.github.io/mdBook/format/theme/index-hbs.html#data
//
// 3. the following paths are equivalent:
//
// /foo/bar/
// /foo/bar/index.html
// /foo/bar/index
//
// 4. the following paths are also equivalent:
//
// /foo/bar/baz
// /foo/bar/baz.html
//
let segments = document.location.pathname.split('/');
let file = segments.pop();
// normalize file name
if (file === '') { file = "index.html"; }
else if (!file.endsWith('.html')) { file = file + '.html'; }
segments.push(file);
// use `path_to_root` to discern prefix from path.
const depth = path_to_root.split('/').length;
// remove segments containing prefix. the following works because
// 1. the original `document.location.pathname` is absolute,
// hence first element of `segments` is always empty.
// 2. last element of splitting `path_to_root` is also always empty.
// 3. last element of `segments` is the file name.
//
// visual example:
//
// '/foo/bar/baz.html'.split('/') -> [ '', 'foo', 'bar', 'baz.html' ]
// '../'.split('/') -> [ '..', '' ]
//
// the following operations will then result in
//
// path = 'bar/baz.html'
//
segments.splice(0, segments.length - depth);
const path = segments.join('/');
// anchor starts with the hash character (`#`),
// but our redirect declarations don't, so we strip it.
// example:
// document.location.hash -> '#foo'
// document.location.hash.substring(1) -> 'foo'
const anchor = document.location.hash.substring(1);
const redirect = redirects[path];
if (redirect) {
const target = redirect[anchor];
if (target) {
document.location.href = target;
}
}