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Created June 28, 2012 17:17
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Change for serializing arrays to query params in MooTools.
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Object.toQueryString({'buh':[1,2]});
"buh[0]=1&buh[1]=2"
On the server side, it looks like:
buh = {0 => 1, 1 => 2}
And we have to do buh.values in order to get it to return an array.
With this patch the query string becomes:
Object.toQueryString({'buh':[1,2]});
"buh[]=1&buh[]=2"
And on the server-side, it's serialized into an array.
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toQueryString.js
// Changes the toQueryString behavior so that arrays aren't converted
// to hashes server-side.
toQueryString: function(object, base){
var queryString = [];
Object.each(object, function(value, key){
if (base) key = base + '[' + key + ']';
var result;
switch (typeOf(value)){
case 'object': result = Object.toQueryString(value, key); break;
case 'array':
var vals = value.map(function(val){
return key + "[]=" + val;
});
result = vals.join(',');
break;
default: result = key + '=' + encodeURIComponent(value);
}
if (value != null) queryString.push(result);
});
return queryString.join('&');
}
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3n commented Jun 29, 2012

From what I can see online, "buh[]=1&buh[]=2" isn't exactly "the" standardized way of sending arrays via query strings, but it's as close as people get (PHP understands it natively). If that's what works for you guys, then we might as well stick with it.

However, this would be a super-duper breaking change in MooTools Core, so there's roughly a 0% chance of them including the patch. I'd just monkey-patch toQueryString on Object to do what you want.

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