How to build a url with query parameters in Angularjs.
I see the API $location.search()
the problem is $location(url) is to redirect to the url. In my case, I want to pass a url and key:value pairs for the query params and build the url. something like
url: /a/b/c
params: {field1: value1, field2: value2}
result: /a/b/c?field1=value1&field2=value2
I like to use this url for links. I have also seen angular encode ?
, &
characters. Can I avoid this?
Edit:
My intention was to use the url as href for anchor elements. I do use $http to send the request, but sometimes I need to provide a link, with query params (based on the current object)
Thanks
There is a nice solution as of 1.4+. You can build a query string from a parameters object with $httpParamSerializer
:
var qs = $httpParamSerializer(params);
See docs here
Default $http params serializer that converts objects to strings
according to the following rules:
{'foo': 'bar'} results in foo=bar
{'foo': Date.now()} results in foo=2015-04-01T09%3A50%3A49.262Z (toISOString() and encoded representation of a Date object)
{'foo': ['bar', 'baz']} results in foo=bar&foo=baz (repeated key for each array element)
{'foo': {'bar':'baz'}} results in foo=%7B%22bar%22%3A%22baz%22%7D" (stringified and encoded representation of an object)
Note that serializer will sort the request parameters alphabetically.
Angular uses the buildUrl()
function internally to make a query string from an object of parameters. For now it's impossible to use it in your code because it's private to $HttpProvider
unless you want to do some eval()
magic.
Related issues on github:
- https://github.com/angular/angular.js/pull/3213
- https://github.com/angular/angular.js/pull/2701
Believe you really are sort of barking up the wrong tree... you need to take a look at $http service which gives you $http.get(url, config) or $http.post(url, data, config). For a GET request with parameters see the following SO
$http get parameters does not work
For information about $http and how it works see the Angular docs.
http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.$http
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the goal though and you actually want to navigate to a different place, what I suggest here is just to make the request in the background (AJAX style).
http://jsfiddle.net/4ZcUW/
The JS
angular.module("myApp", []).controller("MyCtrl", ["$scope", "$window", function($scope, $window) {
$scope.goPlaces = function(url, parameter) {
$window.open("http://www."+url+"?q="+parameter);
//$window.open("http://www."+url+"?q="+parameter, "_self");
//$window.open("http://www."+url+"?q="+parameter, "_top");
};
}])
The HTML
<div ng-app="myApp" ng-controller="MyCtrl">
<a href="#" ng-click="goPlaces('google.com','Shaun Husain')">Find me</a>
</div>
Does this work for your case?
angular's internal and external URL formatting rules are slightly different.
The $location is a means of activating internal routes within your own application.
If it is an external link then $http is what you want.
If it is an internal link, then check it might be worth checking the hash/bang syntax.