CA1054: URI parameters should not be strings

A type declares a method with a string parameter whose name contains "uri", "Uri", "urn", "Urn", "url", or "Url" and the type does not declare a corresponding overload that takes a System.Uri parameter.

This rule splits the parameter name into tokens based on the camel casing convention and checks whether each token equals "uri", "Uri", "urn", "Urn", "url", or "Url". If there is a match, the rule assumes that the parameter represents a uniform resource identifier (URI). A string representation of a URI is prone to parsing and encoding errors, and can lead to security vulnerabilities. If a method takes a string representation of a URI, a corresponding overload should be provided that takes an instance of the Uri class, which provides these services in a safe and secure manner.

To fix a violation of this rule, change the parameter to a Uri type; this is a breaking change. Alternately, provide an overload of the method which takes a Uri parameter; this is a nonbreaking change.

It is safe to suppress a warning from this rule if the parameter does not represent a URI.

The following example shows a type, ErrorProne, that violates this rule, and a type, SaferWay, that satisfies the rule.

using System;

namespace DesignLibrary
{
   public class ErrorProne
   {
      string someUri;

      // Violates rule UriPropertiesShouldNotBeStrings. 
      public string SomeUri
      {
         get { return someUri; }
         set { someUri = value; }
      }

      // Violates rule UriParametersShouldNotBeStrings. 
      public void AddToHistory(string uriString) { }

      // Violates rule UriReturnValuesShouldNotBeStrings. 
      public string GetRefererUri(string httpHeader)
      {
         return "http://www.adventure-works.com";
      }
   }

   public class SaferWay
   {
      Uri someUri;

      // To retrieve a string, call SomeUri.ToString(). 
      // To set using a string, call SomeUri = new Uri(string). 
      public Uri SomeUri
      {
         get { return someUri; }
         set { someUri = value; }
      }

      public void AddToHistory(string uriString)
      {
         // Check for UriFormatException.
         AddToHistory(new Uri(uriString));
      }

      public void AddToHistory(Uri uriType) { }

      public Uri GetRefererUri(string httpHeader)
      {
         return new Uri("http://www.adventure-works.com");
      }
   }
}

CA1056: URI properties should not be strings

CA1055: URI return values should not be strings

CA2234: Pass System.Uri objects instead of strings

CA1057: String URI overloads call System.Uri overloads