Send array of params on GET

[tyler-boyd]

Hi, my issue is as follows:

I do a GET request where the parameters include arrays. Eg:

GET /products?query=mug&categories=drinkware&categories=coffee

The server sees:

PARAMS: 
{ 
"query" => "mug",
"categories" => ["drinkware", "coffee"]
}

How can I generate an address like that?

Currently I'm doing

searchProducts: (query, categories) ->
      params = { query: query }
      _.each categories, (cat, index) ->
        params['categories'] = cat.name
      Restangular.all('products').getList(params)```

But this only sends the last category as the parameter. I also tried:

```coffee
    searchProducts: (query, categories) ->
      params = { query: query }
      _.each categories, (cat, index) ->
        params['categories[' + index + ']'] = cat.name
      Restangular.all('products').getList(params)

But the server receives that as an array of hashes

{
"query" => "mug",
"categories" => { "0" => "drinkware", "1" => "coffee" }
}

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I know that I could solve the issue by changing how I process the params (I could do a map down into an array, I could just do categories=JSON.stringify(category_names) in the client, but I'll bet there's a pretty solution I'm missing.

Thank you.

[mgonto]

Hey,

I send those Request Parameters actually to AngularJS.

They've just fixed that problem and you can do what you're asking the following way now: angular/angular.js#1364

Hope it works out :). Let me know if it does!

Cheers

[CLOUGH]

I recently ran into this issue and i had to do a bit of research to resolve the problem. The issue was closed but for anyone that might stumble on this problem here is a solution.

If you want to pass an array of items within angular all you need to do is store the property name with a open and close square brace:

$scope.filters = {
   "title" : 'some value',
   "type[]": ['Full Time','Part Time']
};

Restangular.all('jobs').getList($scope.filters);

I hope this help.

[lognwching]

@CLOUGH thanks a lot man! Your comment just saved me! 🙌 🚀

[gbittmann]

Using the method described by @CLOUGH the braces are converted to %5B%5D, which does not work.

$scope.filter = { 'tags[]': ['live','design'] }; Restangular.all('search').getList($scope.filter);

[daviesgeek]

@gbittmann Can you please provide a live example on Plunker, JSFiddle or the like?

[KKrisu]

I confirm the issue that @gbittmann has.
In my case, I've just passed simple key: array format:

const params = {
    country: ['fr', 'pl'],
};

Restangular.all('jobs').getList(params);

This generates url with &country=fr&country=pl

[gbittmann]

Sorry. I lost track of this somehow.

https://plnkr.co/edit/Ig2qWW4FfL2r1nkIpqtx?p=preview

You can open up the console and see that it is posting the encoded version of the brackets. Which is probably what it should be doing according to the http spec, but causes issues when you are posting to a php server and getting to accept that as an array. An option to force the encoding to not happen would probably be the only thing that could be done. The current behavior seems to be correct.