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feat: $location.seach() should support semicolon (;) as an alternative delimiter to (ampersand) & #6140

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IgorMinar opened this issue Feb 5, 2014 · 2 comments
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feat: $location.seach() should support semicolon (;) as an alternative delimiter to (ampersand) & #6140

IgorMinar opened this issue Feb 5, 2014 · 2 comments
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per RFC $location should parse both of these as equivalent

https://myapp/some/path/?show=all&ascending=true&sortField=id
https://myapp/some/path/?show=all;ascending=true;sortField=id

since we also need to be able to serialize the params with some separator, we should make the separator configurable (with & being the default)
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caitp commented Feb 7, 2014

What happens if you have a URL like https://myapp/some/path/?show=all&ascending=true;sortField=id ? Looking at the recommendation, it looks like this could cause problems when entity references are used. Seems like you'd have to have some way of figuring out which delimiter is correct, in the case that they're both used.

I've written a naive implementation which just splits by both & and ;, but as stated, I see some problems with that approach.

I guess hopefully, you don't end up with weird urls like that

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feat($location): parse query parameters delimited by ; or &
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In accordance with recomendation in http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2, the
query parameters should support encoding and decoding using & or ; as a delimiter.

Angular will consistently encode search queries using either '&' or ';' as the delimiter, with '&' being the default.
This can be configured like so:

```js
$locationProvider.queryDelimiter(';'); // any other value will be treated as '&'
```

Closes angular#6140
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Rob89 commented Feb 12, 2014

Some APIs use semicolons within a QS parameter. e.g. stackexchange uses semicolons to seperate tags: http://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/search?order=desc&sort=activity&tagged=c%23;javascript&site=stackoverflow

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feat($location): parse query parameters delimited by ; or & angular#6167
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According to RFC (http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2)
location should match either ';' OR '&', but not both at the same time.

Closes angular#6140
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khepin pushed a commit to khepin/angular.js that referenced this issue Feb 19, 2014
feat($location): parse query parameters delimited by ; or &
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According to RFC (http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2)
location should match either ';' OR '&', but not both at the same time.

Closes angular#6140
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