nyancy v1.1.4

nyancy

Parse and stringify URL query strings. This version of the query-string package provides an optional decode parameter that will control whether parsed values are run through decodeComponent from decode-component-uri or not. The original contribution of this work was done by Yadiel Arroyo (@yadielar) as a pull request that was never merged into query-string.

Install

$ npm install nyancy

This module targets Node.js 6 or later and the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. If you want support for older browsers, use version 5: npm install query-string@5. (note that this is the original query-string package)

Usage

const queryString = require('nyancy');

console.log(location.search);
//=> '?foo=bar'

const parsed = queryString.parse(location.search);
console.log(parsed);
//=> {foo: 'bar'}

console.log(location.hash);
//=> '#token=bada55cafe'

const parsedHash = queryString.parse(location.hash);
console.log(parsedHash);
//=> {token: 'bada55cafe'}

parsed.foo = 'unicorn';
parsed.ilike = 'pizza';

const stringified = queryString.stringify(parsed);
//=> 'foo=unicorn&ilike=pizza'

location.search = stringified;
// note that `location.search` automatically prepends a question mark
console.log(location.search);
//=> '?foo=unicorn&ilike=pizza'

API

.parse(string, options)

Parse a query string into an object. Leading ? or # are ignored, so you can pass location.search or location.hash directly.

The returned object is created with Object.create(null) and thus does not have a prototype.

arrayFormat

Type: string Default: 'none'

Supports both index for an indexed array representation or bracket for a bracketed array representation.

• bracket: stands for parsing correctly arrays with bracket representation on the query string, such as:

queryString.parse('foo[]=1&foo[]=2&foo[]=3', {arrayFormat: 'bracket'});
//=> foo: [1,2,3]

• index: stands for parsing taking the index into account, such as:

queryString.parse('foo[0]=1&foo[1]=2&foo[3]=3', {arrayFormat: 'index'});
//=> foo: [1,2,3]

• none: is the default option and removes any bracket representation, such as:

queryString.parse('foo=1&foo=2&foo=3');
//=> foo: [1,2,3]

decode

Type: boolean Default: true

Decode the keys and values. URI components are decoded with decode-uri-component.

.stringify(object, options)

Stringify an object into a query string, sorting the keys.

strict

Type: boolean Default: true

Strictly encode URI components with strict-uri-encode. It uses encodeURIComponent if set to false. You probably don't care about this option.

encode

Type: boolean Default: true

URL encode the keys and values.

arrayFormat

Type: string Default: 'none'

Supports both index for an indexed array representation or bracket for a bracketed array representation.

• bracket: stands for parsing correctly arrays with bracket representation on the query string, such as:

queryString.stringify({foo: [1,2,3]}, {arrayFormat: 'bracket'});
// => foo[]=1&foo[]=2&foo[]=3

• index: stands for parsing taking the index into account, such as:

queryString.stringify({foo: [1,2,3]}, {arrayFormat: 'index'});
// => foo[0]=1&foo[1]=2&foo[3]=3

• none: is the default option and removes any bracket representation, such as:

queryString.stringify({foo: [1,2,3]});
// => foo=1&foo=2&foo=3

sort

Type: Function boolean

Supports both Function as a custom sorting function or false to disable sorting.

const order = ['c', 'a', 'b'];
queryString.stringify({ a: 1, b: 2, c: 3}, {
	sort: (m, n) => order.indexOf(m) >= order.indexOf(n)
});
// => 'c=3&a=1&b=2'

queryString.stringify({ b: 1, c: 2, a: 3}, {sort: false});
// => 'c=3&a=1&b=2'

If omitted, keys are sorted using Array#sort, which means, converting them to strings and comparing strings in Unicode code point order.

.extract(string)

Extract a query string from a URL that can be passed into .parse().

.parseUrl(string, options)

Extract the URL and the query string as an object.

The options are the same as for .parse().

Returns an object with a url and query property.

queryString.parseUrl('https://foo.bar?foo=bar');
//=> {url: 'https://foo.bar', query: {foo: 'bar'}}

Nesting

This module intentionally doesn't support nesting as it's not spec'd and varies between implementations, which causes a lot of edge cases.

You're much better off just converting the object to a JSON string:

queryString.stringify({
	foo: 'bar',
	nested: JSON.stringify({
		unicorn: 'cake'
	})
});
//=> 'foo=bar&nested=%7B%22unicorn%22%3A%22cake%22%7D'

However, there is support for multiple instances of the same key:

queryString.parse('likes=cake&name=bob&likes=icecream');
//=> {likes: ['cake', 'icecream'], name: 'bob'}

queryString.stringify({color: ['taupe', 'chartreuse'], id: '515'});
//=> 'color=chartreuse&color=taupe&id=515'

Falsy values

Sometimes you want to unset a key, or maybe just make it present without assigning a value to it. Here is how falsy values are stringified:

queryString.stringify({foo: false});
//=> 'foo=false'

queryString.stringify({foo: null});
//=> 'foo'

queryString.stringify({foo: undefined});
//=> ''

License

MIT © RedLock