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Switch to using `MXCUri` from `matrix-common` for parsing and validating MXC URIs

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by reading matrix-python-common pull request #29 and locating the current MXC URI parsing and validation path in this repository. Use the MXCUri class there, then verify that existing media-scanning behavior and validation cases still pass.

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Description

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-python-common/pull/29 introduces a new MXCUri class for parsing MXC URIs, which has a bunch of validation logic that would be great to use here.

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Python
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Forks
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Avg merge
1d 7h
Merged PRs (30d)
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