[erlang-questions] url query string encode/decode

[Caragea Silviu]

Thx Roger,

I'm using hackney_url but I did some small changes to be able to encode
proplists with nested structures. As time as you also pointed out I didn't
found any standard and also in my case I'm the one that encodes and also
the one that decodes being an internal service.

What I did is in case the value is a proplist or a list encoded it as json.
I saw this approch in some other public services as well

Silviu

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Roger Lipscombe <roger@REDACTED>
wrote:

> On 15 December 2017 at 10:55, Caragea Silviu <silviu.cpp@REDACTED> wrote:
> > Seems parsing of lists is not compliant.
>
> There's no standard to be "compliant" with. Everyone pretty much
> agrees on key-value pairs where the keys are unique. Beyond that, who
> knows? I've seen ?a=1&a=2&a=3 and ?a[]=1&a[]=2&a[]=3, for instance.
> See, e.g., https://stackoverflow.com/q/24059773/8446.
>
> fwiw, I tend to build my URLs with hackney_url. I don't know what it
> does with repeated keys; I've never tried.
>
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