Skip url-encoding

[uzhas-sovka]

How can I skip url-encoding? For example, I'd like to keep question sign in "search?show_type".

PS. Thanks for great Hachikell (as they say in Moscow) library!

[mrkkrp]

I'd like to keep question sign in "search?show_type".

Then you want to have a query flag. If so, add it by using queryFlag.

[uzhas-sovka]

Thanks Mark, but since I'm still a novice to Haskell after 4 years of spastic education, could you just write down a snippet? The initial line goes like

bs <- req GET (https "mysite.net" /: "en" /: "hippos" /: "search?show_type=all")

[mrkkrp]

Here is a complete example that fetches the page as a strict ByteString:

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

module Main (main) where

import Control.Monad.IO.Class
import Data.Aeson
import Data.Default.Class
import Data.Text (Text)
import Network.HTTP.Req

main :: IO ()
main = runReq def $ do
  r <- req GET
    (https "mysite.net" /: "en" /: "hippos" /: "search")
    NoReqBody
    bsResponse
    ("show_type" =: ("all" :: Text))
  liftIO $ print (responseBody r)

[uzhas-sovka]

Thanks, it works.

[Does not connected with question itself]
Mark, your library is first in Google on "Haskell https". I have just to parse 1 page. And at first it occurs that standard Haskell package does not allow to download https, only http, and then I realize I can't just put my url without any disassembling and get the result. It takes two lines in C# to do the same job.

Maybe I'm missing something in my Haskell odyssey.

[mrkkrp]

Mark, your library is first in Google on "Haskell https"

It's not my fault!

I have just to parse 1 page. And at first it occurs that standard Haskell package does not allow to download https, only http

I don't see why this would be the case, req allows us to use both.

and then I realize I can't just put my url without any disassembling

Well you can put it without disassembling. see:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/req-1.2.1/docs/Network-HTTP-Req.html#v:parseUrlHttps

...and similar. Although it's not as safe. Your URL could be malformed for example. Or what if you need to assemble it from different components that change dynamically? In that case you probably going to appreciate API of the library.

It takes two lines in C# to do the same job.

General programming is different from code golf IMO. It doesn't matter much if it's 2 lines or 5 lines. What matters is correctness.