feat(http): Please make buildUrl public

[donaldpipowitch]

Feature Request:
It would be great if buildUrl would be public. It is a function which was copied nearly identical into Restangular and I had to do the same for a private module.

[donaldpipowitch]

Any progress on this? We need to do this again for some mocking API service.

[pkozlowski-opensource]

Personally I would be against just marking this one method as public. What I would do instead is to move it to a dedicated service responsible for serializing URLs and its params. Making this move would allow us to solve other issues - namely - difference in serilizing or array request params by different back-ends.

I had a PR for this extract-logic-into-a-service for quite some time so maybe now is the time....

[donaldpipowitch]

I would totally prefer a separate service which would be used by $http itself, too.

[junhanamaki]

+1 for this feature.

[ivanff]

+1

[pkozlowski-opensource]

@petebacondarwin I think that you've got super-powers to block users from a repo - @OMarohn is "spamming" all the threads in the AngularJS repo - presumably from an auto-responder...

[petebacondarwin]

I see what powers I can muster

[pkozlowski-opensource]

@donaldpipowitch here is my proposal for solving this in 1.4: https://gist.github.com/pkozlowski-opensource/5a57d28ccfeacaba7661 your feedback would be much appreciated.

[parliament718]

+1 for pkozlowski's solution ... moving buildUrl into a $urlBuilder sevice seems like a good solution to me. Need this functionality

[donaldpipowitch]

Sounds good to me. +1 for a $urlBuilder service.

[jmendiara]

@donaldpipowitch @junhanamaki @ivanff Here you have another approach ready to be used in angular > v1.2
http://codepen.io/jmendiara/details/bdGbPN/