So the backend (not under my control) requires a query string like this:
http://example.com/?foo=5&foo=2&foo=11
But axios
uses JS object to send the request params:
axios.get('http://example.com/', { foo: 5 });
And obviously such object can't have multiple fields with the same key.
How can I send a request with multiple fields with same key?
From the axios documentation on the request config
// `params` are the URL parameters to be sent with the request
// Must be a plain object or a URLSearchParams object
params: {
ID: 12345
},
To use this in a request, you would do
var request = {
params: {
foo: [5, 2, 11]
}
}
axios.get('http://example.com/', request);
The only issue with using a plain object approach is that array parameters are added as
http://example.com/?foo[]=5&foo[]=2&foo[]=11
To get request without the []
like you want, you can use the URLSearchParams
var params = new URLSearchParams();
params.append("foo", 5);
params.append("foo", 2);
params.append("foo", 11);
var request = {
params: params
};
axios.get('http://example.com/', request);
This will result in a request as
http://example.com/?foo=5&foo=2&foo=11
In Axios request config, you can override params serialization and then use QS NPM module to serialize array with repeat mode
let params = { foo: [5, 2] }
axios.get('path/to/api/',{params}) // URL : https://path/to/api?foo[]=5&foo[]=2
let myAxios = axios.create({
paramsSerializer: params => Qs.stringify(params, {arrayFormat: 'repeat'})
})
myAxios.get('path/to/api/',{params}) // URL : https://path/to/api?foo=5&foo=2
Adding more details to @nhydock accepted answer.
When you do
var request = {foo: [5, 2, 11] }
axios.get('http://example.com/', request);
For django application you can receive these as
self.request.query_params.getlist('foo')
also.
Disclaimer: I have never used Axios and couldn't find any reference in
the documentation. It is still worth a try. Personally, I would
implement it this way in a library.
It might also be possible to pass arrays as values for the parameter:
axios.get('http://example.com/', { foo: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] });
If one uses the ready URLSearchParams the handling of multiple parameter values with the same name works with axios as well ... I guess the support for IE came in 2017 ... Works on Safari too, although the links claims that it might not ..
function getUrlParams(){
// handles multiple param values with the same name
var url_params = new URLSearchParams();
if( window.location.toString().indexOf("?") != -1) {
window.location.search.split('?')[1].split('#')[0]
.replace(/([^=&]+)=([^&]*)/g, function(m, key, value) {
var attr = decodeURIComponent(key)
var val = decodeURIComponent(value)
url_params.append(attr,val);
});
} else {
// create a default set of params - you might not need this one ...
url_params = { some_param:"some_value" };
}
return url_params ;
}
function getBackEndData(url_params, back_end_url){
// the replace is just a fancy way of converting front-end to back-end call
return axios.get( back_end_url , { params: url_params } )
.then(response => {
return response.data ;
})
.catch(function(error) {
return error.response ;
console.log(error.response.data);
})
}