URL query parameters?

[mooseyboots]

hi, i thought i might take a look at this for mastodon.el and/or fedi.el.

i'm a little surprised that plz doesn't have a params arg taking an alist of form data parameters, which is how i'm set up with my http layers.

whats the usual way to send them with plz? i'm not thinking of alists in :body for POST requests, but GET requests that take them in the URL itself, i.e. ?q=xyz.

i can't see any mention of this in the readme, nor examples covering it. probably because it's too obvious.

[alphapapa]

If you mean URL query parameters, plz doesn't handle that itself, it just accepts a URL. You can use the built-in url library to build a URL with query parameters, e.g.

https://github.com/alphapapa/ement.el/blob/60e9a50b8a230c00d92f639ba25040944bcda9ab/ement-api.el#L95-L98

It's a bit awkward to do so, so I'm not necessarily opposed to adding support for this to plz.

[mooseyboots]

ack sorry yes i meant query parameters. i took a quick look at ement.el after posting here to see what you do, and found those lines.

and seeing that, i realized that the point of plz.el isn't to do away w url.el entirely, but maybe more just to avoid its pitfalls.

in fedi.el and lem.el i found they're the most handy thing to have streamlined and simplified. but others' usage needs may differ from mine.

[alphapapa]

Yes, plz is intended to provide an alternative to url-retrieve, not all of url and its libraries.

It would be nice to have a simpler API for URL-building than the one in the linked code, but OTOH, such code is usually written once and then not modified frequently, so I'm not sure a new API would be worth it.