pub struct EntityTag {
    pub weak: bool,
    /* private fields */
}
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An entity tag, defined in [RFC 7232 §2.3].

An entity tag consists of a string enclosed by two literal double quotes. Preceding the first double quote is an optional weakness indicator, which always looks like W/. Examples for valid tags are "xyzzy" and W/"xyzzy".

ABNF

entity-tag = [ weak ] opaque-tag
weak       = %x57.2F ; "W/", case-sensitive
opaque-tag = DQUOTE *etagc DQUOTE
etagc      = %x21 / %x23-7E / obs-text
           ; VCHAR except double quotes, plus obs-text

Comparison

To check if two entity tags are equivalent in an application always use the strong_eq or weak_eq methods based on the context of the Tag. Only use == to check if two tags are identical.

The example below shows the results for a set of entity-tag pairs and both the weak and strong comparison function results:

ETag 1ETag 2Strong ComparisonWeak Comparison
W/"1"W/"1"no matchmatch
W/"1"W/"2"no matchno match
W/"1""1"no matchmatch
"1""1"matchmatch

RFC 7232 §2.3

Fields§

§weak: bool

Weakness indicator for the tag

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Constructs a new EntityTag.

Panics

If the tag contains invalid characters.

Constructs a new weak EntityTag.

Panics

If the tag contains invalid characters.

👎Deprecated since 3.0.0: Renamed to new_weak.

Constructs a new strong EntityTag.

Panics

If the tag contains invalid characters.

👎Deprecated since 3.0.0: Renamed to new_strong.

Returns tag.

Sets tag.

Panics

If the tag contains invalid characters.

For strong comparison two entity-tags are equivalent if both are not weak and their opaque-tags match character-by-character.

For weak comparison two entity-tags are equivalent if their opaque-tags match character-by-character, regardless of either or both being tagged as “weak”.

Returns the inverse of strong_eq().

Returns inverse of weak_eq().

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