Send array of params on GET

Hi, my issue is as follows:

I do a GET request where the parameters include arrays. Eg:

GET /products?query=mug&categories=drinkware&categories=coffee

The server sees:

PARAMS: 
{ 
"query" => "mug",
"categories" => ["drinkware", "coffee"]
}

How can I generate an address like that?

Currently I’m doing

searchProducts: (query, categories) ->
      params = { query: query }
      _.each categories, (cat, index) ->
        params['categories'] = cat.name
      Restangular.all('products').getList(params)```

But this only sends the last category as the parameter. I also tried:

```coffee
    searchProducts: (query, categories) ->
      params = { query: query }
      _.each categories, (cat, index) ->
        params['categories[' + index + ']'] = cat.name
      Restangular.all('products').getList(params)

But the server receives that as an array of hashes

{
"query" => "mug",
"categories" => { "0" => "drinkware", "1" => "coffee" }
}

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I know that I could solve the issue by changing how I process the params (I could do a map down into an array, I could just do categories=JSON.stringify(category_names) in the client, but I’ll bet there’s a pretty solution I’m missing.

Thank you.

[CLOUGH]

I recently ran into this issue and i had to do a bit of research to resolve the problem. The issue was closed but for anyone that might stumble on this problem here is a solution.

If you want to pass an array of items within angular all you need to do is store the property name with a open and close square brace:

$scope.filters = {
   "title" : 'some value',
   "type[]": ['Full Time','Part Time']
};

Restangular.all('jobs').getList($scope.filters);

I hope this help.

[KKrisu]

I confirm the issue that @gbittmann has. In my case, I’ve just passed simple key: array format:

const params = {
    country: ['fr', 'pl'],
};

Restangular.all('jobs').getList(params);

This generates url with &country=fr&country=pl